Discussion: China is the third most restrictive country in the world when it comes to Internet access. By using what is referred to as the Great Firewall and the Golden Shield, China controls what its citizens can see and access on the Internet. The Great Firewall limits access to foreign websites, and the Golden Shield… Read more »
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A visit to China’s secretive tech giant
Discussion: Huawei Technologies has a telecom system that connects a third of the world’s mobile phones and employs more people than either Cisco or Microsoft. However, the company is relatively unknown in North America due in large part to a lack of presence. The company has a young (average age of 28) and dynamic work… Read more »
Our Web freedom at the mercy of tech giants
Discussion: Big media companies, and their political agendas, may have enough power to influence free speech on the web. These companies are currently dealing with the issue of whether or not speech involving slander, hatred or violence needs to be controlled. It is an issue of genuine economic and security concerns on the one hand with… Read more »
Inside Google’s China misfortune
Discussion: On January 27, 2006, Google.cn went live in China, and within a few months, Google China’s headquarters was outfitted with the usual frills: foosball tables, a fully equipped gym, massage room, a huge cafeteria with free meals. But signs of a distressed relationship soon followed: unexplained outages, Google’s operating license was suddenly no longer… Read more »
Google’s Vint Cerf on web future
Discussion: Vint Cerf, who helped design the architecture that the Internet is built on, is now the chief evangelist at Google. In an interview with CNN, Cerf describes the Internet as a “giant tent, under which you can do almost anything you can imagine and program.” Cerf praises the Egyptian people for using the Internet… Read more »
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