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China starts asking new cellphone users for ID

FAC September 1, 2010

The Chinese government started to implement a long-discussed measure that requires cellphone subscribers to register their identities when setting up an account, prompting concerns over privacy in the world’s largest mobile market. The Wall Street Journal September 1, 2010 By Loretta Chao BEIJING—The measure went into effect Wednesday, with customer service representatives at mobile operators China Mobile Ltd., China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. and China Telecom Corp. informing customers that new users would be required

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Google looks for way to satisfy government and keep its service going in China

donal brown June 29, 2010

After the Chinese government objected to Google’s rerouting users to an uncensored site in Hong Kong, the company struggles to come up with another strategy to continue service in China. -db The Wall Street Journal June 29, 2010 By Amir Efrati and Andrew Batson Google Inc. said it would change how Internet users in China access its search service after the Chinese government objected to its recent strategy of redirecting Chinese users to an uncensored site

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Chinese stop Hong Kong printing of memoirs by ex-premier

donal brown June 21, 2010

The Chinese government blocked the Hong Kong publication of ex-premier Li Peng already banned in the mainland. Li Peng brought a violent end to the Tiananmen Square protest in 1989 and reportedly had claimed in his memoir that China’s current leaders supported the military’s attack on the student demonstrators. -db The New York Times June 20, 2010 By Andrew Jacobs BEIJING — A Hong Kong publisher said Sunday that he was forced to halt the

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China filtering rather than blocking Google

donal brown June 17, 2010

Observers are saying China is balancing its censorship policy with pragmatic needs to allow access to Google. -db The Digital Daily Feed June 15, 2010 By John Paczkowski Rather than rejecting it outright, China is adapting to Google’s new approach to the country, working toward a balance that keeps access to Google.com.hk (a redirect from Google.cn) open while honoring Beijing’s longstanding commitment to censorship–sorry,“freedom of speech…in accordance with the law.” That’s the gist of a

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China reaffirms online censorship policy

donal brown June 10, 2010

While claiming to safeguard free speech, the Chinese government issued a long list of online speech it considers undesirable. -db CNET AllThingsD Commentary June 9, 2010 By John Paczkowski Though it has given no indication otherwise, China would like the world to know that it has no plans to allow free access to online content–Google’s “new approach” to the country be damned. In a lengthy white paper titled “The Internet in China,” China’s State Council

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