China’s Information Duality
A decade ago a common belief was that the Internet would inevitably free societies from governmental regulation, John Perry Barlow’s “weary giants of flesh and steel.” Times change. In chapter 6 of Who...
View ArticleKeeping the Moat Up
Earlier this week the China Internet Network Information Center issued its annual report, estimating China had 137 million Internet users aged 6 or older who spend at least one hour a week online....
View ArticleIs a Hug Evidence of Bad Faith?
The Associated Press carried a recent cybersquatting article with a title that tells the whole story: Woman willing to give up Yao Ming’ domain address – for a price. The young Chinese woman’s price is...
View ArticleWe’re Number Two
It’s a when-not-if announcement: China Passes U.S. as World’s Biggest Energy Consumer: [A]ccording to new data from the International Energy Agency . . . whose forecasts are generally regarded as...
View ArticleIf a Sapling is Cut Down as Soon as it’s Planted . . .
One form of Chinese censorship is to block searches for “sensitive info” such as Tiananmen and Falun Gong. If a web post is made in a forest and no one can find it, does it convey information? Another...
View ArticlePlaying the China Card
In a speech a few weeks ago Hillary Clinton criticized China and other nations for their Internet censorship, warning that what she called an “information curtain” might prevent the citizens of such...
View ArticleGreen Dam
Despite domestic and international opposition (e.g. “China Faces Criticism Over New Software Censor“) China is proceeding with its requirement that the Green Dam Youth Escort content-filtering software...
View ArticleTrade Polls
A friend sent me a link to a compendium of polls an American views of the economy and foreign trade: http://www.pollingreport.com/trade.htm. There’s a lot of information but even a brief look reveals...
View ArticleHacking the Great Firewall
In Who Controls the Internet Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu describe the Internet in China as a “national intranet, ” an internal network with carefully-monitored connectivity to the rest of the world....
View ArticleChina and the Internet
China comes to mind when one considers how geography has extended its dominion over the supposedly borderless Internet of the early 1990s. Two recent articles together make the point that Chinese...
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