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Hong Kong enlists kids in p2p monitoring

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

p2pnet caught this story from the South China Morning Post.  The Hong Kong Customs’ Intellectual Property Investigation Bureau has released results from its training program for youth, which teaches them how to monitor and report illegal internet transfer files.  The program aims to expand to a cadre of 200,000 youth.

” ‘Initially we used 700 cadets from the Civil Aid Service…

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Chinese blogs can drive quick public action

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

We all have our own ideas about what charity is and how to make it happen. Charity on the Chinese mainland takes place within the context of socialist class ideologies, Chinese Buddhism, newly resurrected pre-revolutionary civic structures, Chinese-style non-governmental organizations, and emerging Western-influenced philanthropy.

In the last few years, bloggers have also voiced social justice issues, such as the “BMW case”…

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Hong Kong is tougher: arrest of another file-sharer

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

Customs_1Photo: The Standard, Friday May 12, 2006
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It looks like Hong Kong is taking a different approach to filesharing than the rest of the mainland.

A 16 year old Hong Kong student was arrested yesterday by the Hong Kong Customs Anti-Internet Piracy Team for hosting and sharing 600 pirated songs and about 20 movies. …

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Guge still gets to back alleys of virtual China

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

Part trashing Google/Guge, part pursed-lips shock, part guide to the backstreets of virtual China, this May 10 “Daily Economic News 每日经济新闻” article spells out how to find drugs, guns, and other illegal things online–and makes the assertion that Guge/Google is not doing a proper filtering job.

The reporter’s central question: “How can we prevent the Internet from becoming more of a…

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no profit, no choice: sexual content in virtual China

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

Even though I know that just writing about it here means this post will turn up the next time someone searches for “china porn,” this 4/18 Southern Daily article, “Portals Flooded With Sexual Content for Page Views; The Profit-less Can’t Be Choosy,” provides some useful insights.

    Some have alleged that the more sophisticated net users have all gone to…

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Online Bribery Database

Posted on by Jason Li

From Pacific Epoch:

“Beijing’s Tongzhou District recently established an internal database of local bribery records, Beijing Star Daily reports. The system catalogues all criminal records of bribery in the construction, finance, pharmacy, education and governmental procurement sectors since 1997. Individuals and enterprises can apply for access to the database, said the report.”

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PBS on China; and, see your English language website in Chinese

Posted on by Lyn Jeffery

PBS NewsHour did a piece yesterday on the current state of Chinese Internet censorship.  Speakers included an anonymous Chinese software engineer, Orville Schell (Dean of UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism), Xiao Qiang (China news aggregator and media activist extraordinaire), and Minxin Pei (Carnegie Endowment and wellknown China scholar).

Much of what was said was not new if you’ve been following the issues, but…

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