This past spring we wrote about how half our blogroll was blocked by the infamous Chinese firewall. We were still getting through at the time. I’ve noticed a bunch of pings to SM from Chinese networks this weekend- checked the GreatFireWallofChina - sure enough, we’re now blocked. How rude is that? [...]
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SM friend Peter Krug sent us this nifty little site that bounces your url to their server in China to see if you’re being censored or blocked. I’m glad to say that SensoryMetrics is still OK - but a big chunk of our favorite blogs are not…
Out of our current 16 sites listed, these [...]
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Just after I poked some fun at Google for buckling-in to Chinese censorship… Telus announces today that it’s cancelling its mobile porn service because it received a few hundred complaints from Catholic groups. That’s a few hundred complaints out of 5 million customers. Although I don’t understand the appeal of mobile adult content, this is [...]
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So the department of Justice just wrapped up its inaugural conference on Global Internet Freedom… but we’re still left with the question - where’s the line between good and bad censorship of the internet? A good example of bad censorship is Google.cn trying to block search results for: teen pregnancy, dating, homosexuality, [...]
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