Posts Tagged ‘China’
Extend your way out of the Chinese government's grip on Flickr
As I've written earlier, the Chinese government is blocking access to Flickr — probably because of some pictures of the Tianmen Square being published onto Flickr.
However, help is on the way — if you're a Firefox user, that is.
According to CNET News you can get around the blockade using a Firefox extension. The extension is called "Access Flickr!" and is created by an Iranian man named Hamed Saber.
According to the article some Greasemonkey gymnastics can also do the trick.
I wonder what will happen next? Will China block access to the Mozilla and Firefox sites? I guess this just shows that you can't control the internet.
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China will most likely block out Flickr
The Chinese government who apparently stops at nothing in trying to keep the Chinese citizens from having any good use of the internet is now apparently disabling access to photo sharing site Flickr. The reason: Pictures from the massacre at the Tianmen Square has been published on Flickr.
This means that the German government should cut national access to Flickr, when they discovered these photos of a time and place in history much worse than Tianmen Square.
Read more:
USA Today: "Yahoo: Beijing likely blocking Flickr
Tags: Censorship, China, Flickr
Browser war intensifies: Mozilla goes China
Reuters has the story that Mozilla (who's behind Firefox and Thunderbird) is setting up offices in China:
"It's not our goal to make sure that everyone in the world is using Firefox. My main goal is that people know there's a choice — that going on the Internet is not just clicking the blue 'E'," Lilly told Reuters in a telephone interview, referring to the Internet Explorer desktop icon.
According to Reuters, China is the world's second largest internet market. Looks like the browser wars is moving to a new phase with even more competition.
After what I've heard, Maxthon is rapidly growing the Asian countries.
Related postsTags: Browsers, China, Firefox, Mozilla, Thunderbird
Reprise: China's censorship
Many of you have do doubt seen this before, but I think it deserves to be posted again.
A Google Image search for "tiananmen" clearly shows how the Chinese authorities are censoring the web.
Related postsTags: China, Google, Search, Search engines, Searches, Searching
China closes down for WikiPedia
Nothing lasts forever, and according to CNN China's »easing of a ban on the popular online encyclopedia« WikiPedia is no exception. Too bad :(
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China opens up for WikiPedia
According to BBC News the Chinese government has just re-allowed the people of China to visit WikiPedia.org.
The news of the Chinese move seems to come from Reporters Without Borders.
I am very much against censoring what people may or may not see on the web, so this is kind of a big thing for me :-)
Related postsTags: Censorship, China, Wikipedia