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By ArticleSnatch on April 21, 2007
Search engine companies get sued all the time, but it’s usually about a patent dispute, a site’s ranking, or something else relatively mundane and white-collar. Not so in this case: Yahoo is being sued under the Alien Tort Claims Act and the Torture Victims Protection Act. No one’s suggesting that some Yahoo exec pulled out [...]
Posted in Internet | Tagged American court, China, Chinese government, In Chinese, In Chinese Torture, Mike Masnick, Reporters Without Borders, Search Engine, Wang aren, Wang Xiaoning, World Organization, yahoo, Yu Ling |
By ArticleSnatch on April 6, 2007
Shareholders will have the opportunity to vote on a proposal during the upcoming annual meeting that would call on Google to take a strong stance against censorship and abusive regimes.Delving into the mind-numbing forms and filings made by publicly traded companies is a lot like muckraking. That’s a term that has been applied, usually negatively, [...]
Posted in Internet | Tagged China, Eric Schmidt, google, New York, New York City, Reporters Without Borders, Securities and Exchange Commission, Sergey Brin, The New York Times, United States, USD, yahoo |
By ArticleSnatch on March 20, 2007
Not to brag as much as give thanks: it’s nice to live in a place where you won’t go to jail for having something to say. "Cyber-dissident" Zhang Jianhong (pen name, Li Hong) can go to jail for it, and is, for six years. We can also be thankful phrases like "reeducation-through-work camp for counter-revolutionary [...]
Posted in Internet | Tagged Aiquinghai.net, China, George Orwell, google, Li Hong, Reporters Without Borders, search-results, Tiananmen Square, Without Borders, yahoo |
By ArticleSnatch on February 27, 2007
The owners of the domain Gmail.cn, a top-level domain in China, have offers on the table from Google, but so far they have dug in and refused to sell.Some of the rougher aspects of internationalization have plagued Google when it comes to domain names. Over the past couple of years, they have fought legal battles [...]
Posted in Internet | Tagged Beijing, Britain, China, Chinese government, Delaware, Germany, google, Internet body CNNIC, ISM Technologies, law enforcement, Reporters Without Borders, Reuters, search advertising, top-level domain, wholesale Internet, yahoo |
By ArticleSnatch on January 24, 2007
China is on pace to surpass the number of Internet users in the U.S. Last year the country had a 23 percent increase in Internet users brining the total to 137 million. In an interview with China Daily, Wang Enhai of the Chinese Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said, “We believe it will take two [...]
Posted in Internet | Tagged China, Chinese government, Chinese Internet Network Information Center, Delaware, ebay, google, internet access, Internet Freedom desk, Internet penetration, Internet Population China, Internet use, internet users, internet-based offerings, Julien Pain, Reporters Without Borders, United States, Wang Enhai, yahoo |
By ArticleSnatch on January 22, 2007
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Vodafone quietly disclosed they were working together with human rights organizations, investors and legal experts to develop a code of conduct for technology companies to help protect online free speech and privacy. The move is likely in response to proposed legislation that would be much more restrictive. The companies have been [...]
Posted in Internet | Tagged Berkeley School of Law-Boalt Hall, Berkman Center for Internet, California, Center for Democracy and Technology, China, Chinese government, Chris Smith, Congress, CPJ, Delaware, Department of Commerce, Department of State, Domini Social Investments LLC, Electronic Frontier Foundation, free speech groups, Google Inc, Guantanamo Bay, Harvard, Harvard Law School, Human Rights Watch, International Council on Human Rights Policy, Internet, internet freedom, Internet journalists, Internet Restricting Countries, Internet Restricting Country, Internet service providers, Joel Simon, John Palfrey, legitimate foreign law enforcement purposes, Microsoft, modified search results, New York, Office of Global Internet Freedom, online content, online editors, Online Freedom Act, Reporters Without Borders, Shi Tao, state-sponsored internet jamming, technology, United Nations, United States, University of California, US Government, US technology, USD, Vodafone, Web-based reporters, yahoo |
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