Content-Control Software

14 Aug 2012

Mainland police have detained more than 2,100 suspects in the biggest crackdown against pornography in terms of the number of arrests, Beijing municipal police said yesterday.

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Great Firewall blocks slideshow-sharing site

13 Jul 2012

Mainland internet users can no longer access slideshare.net, a website where about 29 million people from around the world upload and share PowerPoint presentations and other types of documents...

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Should blogging sites follow Blogger and Twitter and censor their content?

21 Feb 2012

Vanessa Wong, 16, Diocesan Girls' School

7:58AM

Take a stand for your freedom of expression

2 Feb 2012

'Students weren't able to do their homework due to the Wikipedia blackout - damn the Stop Online Piracy Act [Sopa]'.

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58 websites showing HK, Taiwan news shut down

2 Feb 2012

Mainland censors have shut down at least 58 websites in four provinces that rebroadcast content - mostly news programmes - from Hong Kong and Taiwan, in the latest attempt to crack down on...

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Online piracy act must be stopped

21 Jan 2012

Let us be clear: There is no place for theft on the internet. Those who knowingly distribute and download copyrighted movies, music and books should be caught and punished under the laws of the...

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Opinion

Placating graduates a work in progress

Updated 5:24AM

George Chen

For HSBC, the first love is apparently not the deepest

4:18AM

Hackers hit Lady Gaga's Twitter account

Pop diva Lady Gaga's star power has not only drawn her millions of followers but also hackers.

3:49AM

41pc of mainland websites close in just one year

The number of websites on the mainland almost halved last year, an official think tank says - but it denies a clampdown by the authorities is mainly to blame.

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Mainland-born IT whiz finds China favours its locals

Mainland-born engineer and entrepreneur Ken Xie, who established three computer network security companies in the United States, has found it difficult to expand business in his native country...

1:59PM

'Father' of firewall's microblog removed after user backlash

Sina Corp was forced to delete the microblog content of a key player in the mainland's online security after a flood of criticism from internet users.

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Edicts overruled by realities on the ground

Call it a reality check: the central government has lowered the mandated minimum protein level for unprocessed milk and stopped funding the content-control software Green Dam Youth Escort.

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Green Dam software maker loses staff and funds

The major developer behind the controversial Green Dam Youth Escort internet content-control software has shed two thirds of the staff working on the project even though it says business is...

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