-
Fresh Dispatches From The Culture Wars
-
-
-
Category Archives: Chinese censorship
CNN Reports What Glenn Beck Decides To Ignore
Share the post "CNN Reports What Glenn Beck Decides To Ignore"
Share the post “CNN Reports What Glenn Beck Decides To Ignore”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailIf Glenn Beck wanted to find some actual, real, non-imaginary communist tyranny, he’d need look no farther than his boss’s best friends. The Chinese communist party has activated its massive … Continue reading
GoDaddy Joins Google
Share the post “GoDaddy Joins Google”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail The internet is leaving China one company at a time as government efforts to erect a Great Wall of Technology repel investors. First Google, now Danica Patrick: In December, China began to enforce a … Continue reading
Posted in China, Chinese censorship, Virtual Reality Living
Leave a comment
Google vs. China
Share the post “Google vs. China”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailJames Fallows weighs in at The Atlantic: In a strange and striking way there is an inversion of recent Chinese and U.S. roles. In the switch from George W. Bush to Barack Obama, the U.S. … Continue reading
Posted in China, Chinese censorship, globalization, Google
Leave a comment
The Emperor’s New Map
Share the post “The Emperor’s New Map”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThe AP has stirred my inner map geek at exactly the right time. A million-dollar map is on rare public display: The map created by Matteo Ricci was the first in Chinese to show … Continue reading
Posted in China, Chinese censorship, globalization, Google, internet, Political Geography
Leave a comment
Google May Leave China
Share the post “Google May Leave China”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail After a spate of cyber-attacks aimed directly at Chinese human rights advocates and their foreign contacts, Google has had enough: These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered–combined with the attempts over the … Continue reading
Posted in China, Chinese censorship, Google
Leave a comment
Censoring "Avatar"
Share the post “Censoring "Avatar"”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailTo sell their game in China, the makers of World of Warcraft had to put flesh on the bones of skeletons. Fallout 3 couldn’t be sold in India because the ubiquitous two-headed bulls in the game … Continue reading
Posted in censorship, Chinese censorship, globalization
Leave a comment
Weekly World News?
Share the post “Weekly World News?”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThis is the first edition of a weekly blog in which I’ll round up the events that shape global politics. I’d like to call it Weekly World News, but I don’t want to be confused … Continue reading
