Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
At their most sinister networks are seen as fishnets, entangaling, suffocating and all seeing. A network that watches you actively is usually called something else. The Matrix. Feature – Working the Camera Feature – Working the Camera: Real-Time Grid-Powered Surveillance The inside…
U.S. warns of possible Qaeda financial cyber attack – Yahoo! News
Saturday, November 18, 2006 I’m going to say something controversial. I know, I know. The internet is for free speech. It is the last remnant of the American sixties counterculture. It’s about self-expression and information sharing. So why do I think it’s…
Very, very interesting posting about the Wikipedian power processes… [WikiEN-l] Quitting Wikipedia and wanted you to know why.
Follwing up on his smart Weekly Standard article , Andrew Keen posts on this blog, The Great Seduction, a very thoughtful comment on the Google-China debacle. The lack of guilt (doubled by an excess of guile) associated with how the cybergiant treated…
McCain takes a stance in USA TODAY on the Google-China story: We believe that American companies must develop and agree to abide by a code of conduct governing their interactions with repressive regimes, and we applaud the suggestion by some companies that…
Hearings today in Congress related to the Chinese policy of some major IT companies WASHINGTON – Four U.S. high-tech companies on Wednesday found themselves branded collaborators with the Chinese government in suppressing dissent in return for access to a booming Internet market.…
Congress is busily drafting a law that would prevent IT giants like Microsoft and Google from repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot. The law would prevent US media/telecom companies from hosting major portions of their networks in locations where human rights are…
Answering to criticisms related to its subservient behavior in China Yahoo! seems to be saying “I’ll do it, if Mickey does it first”. Microsoft, that is… » Yahoo Wants Collective Action Against Chinese Web Regulations : Search Engine Journal Yahoo’s basic dilemma…
Yahoo accused in jailing of 2nd China Internet user – Yahoo! News BEIJING (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO – news) provided evidence to Chinese authorities that led to the imprisonment of an Internet writer, lawyers and activists said on Thursday, the second…
The US Congress has started an investigation into the new Google, MSN, Yahoo policies in China. Interestingly enough, Microsoft and Yahoo! believe that the ball is in the government’s court: Google, Microsoft, Cisco, and Yahoo! were yesterday roundly condemned for “collaborating with…
Microsoft figured out a way to avoid coming across as the bad guy… Microsoft says it is setting new policies on shutting down Web journals after its much-publicized squelching of a well-known Chinese blogger at the request of Chinese officials. The Redmond…
… as loud by any other spelling… SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0) – Google (Research) is getting lambasted online for its new policy of accommodating China’s Internet-censorship rules. But with its new Chinese search engine, Google.cn, Google isn’t living up to its reputation…
The New York Times mentions several solutions: The OpenNet Initiative (www.opennet.net), an international human rights project linking researchers from the University of Toronto, Harvard Law School and Cambridge University, tracks Internet censorship and the techniques used to evade it. To surf the…
The Economist thinks that there is a silver lining in the Google-China story… The fact that Google will indeed use disclaimers and will not unroll services that will make it vulnerable to collaboration with the secret police is something that deserves attention.…
Slate in on the Google-China debacle. A treat! Great Firewall of China By Michael Weiss Posted Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2006, at 6:28 PM ET Bloggers are overwhelmingly horrified by Google’s decision to censor search queries in China. They’re also less than thrilled…
It’s official, in exchange for better acess to the Chinese market Google agrees to censor the searches requested by Chinese users. FOXNews.com – Technology News – China’s Google Search Engine to Be Censored SAN FRANCISCO — Online search engine leader Google Inc.…
Since none of our guests specializes in policy issues, especially in an international context, I would like to suggest the following story as a subject of online (via this blog) debate. This is one of the several topics I will propose between…