Archive for the 'filtering' Category



Ever since the first stories broke about the Chinese filtering Internet access for foreign journalists at the Olympics Main Press Center (MPC) I have been wondering why the relevant Chinese authorities would be so stupid. After all, it was more than predictable that this is a huge story for a world already bent on getting [...]

The “first public conference to discuss the current state of play of Internet filtering worldwide” is in full swing in St. Anne’s college in Oxford and there are already some online accounts of the main findings of the study (see their main website if indeed you are able to access it). (update:for a near live [...]