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Sunday, March 29, 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
YouTube online again in China (for two days–see update)
As of March 27, YouTube was available again in China following a four-day layoff, reportedly over a video showing police brutality in Tibet that authorities insisted was fake. In recent years, China's web censors (colloquially known as the Great Firewall or the Net Nanny) have relaxed censorship policies on the English language web, but still obstruct many popular blogging services and nonprofit organizations (a list of notable targets can be found on Wikipedia).
Prominent news organizations such as the New York Times and CNN are available in China (regardless of content), as are Wikipedia and Blogger (both of which were blocked as recently as two years ago). Google caches are always blocked in China (disabling the "view as HTML" option for PDF files) and Google image searches can only be gleamed for a few pages before turning into pages of dead links.
The YouTube block did much to draw the ire of ordinary Chinese, who have grown accustomed to using the service. Chinese authorities usually do make any public acknowledgments or explanations for blocks that are imposed. Most of the actual blocking which takes place is done on the ISP level, where service providers are expected to know what websites are and are not permissable. Google and other search engines have come under criticism for censoring results on their Chinese-language home pages.
Many Chinese netizens use VPNs such as Witopia or Hotspot Shield or proxies in order to bypass the "Golden Shield Project" (China's official name for the censorship regime).
UPDATE: By March 30, YouTube was down once again across China, according to reports registered on Herdict.
Monday, March 23, 2009
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Sunday, March 08, 2009
The future of journalism? Pay and play
Yahoo's feature story this morning is an advertorial entitled "Fifty-Dollar-an-Hour Earning Power." The article outlines five jobs which it claims earn an average salary of $44 or more. Coincidentally, all five jobs can be obtained through an online master's program! A small disclaimer at the bottom notes that the article was sponsored by Keller Graduate School of Management.
One important piece of data left out of the article: how many $100,000 actuaries or petroleum engineers got their job through ONLINE DEGREES.
One important piece of data left out of the article: how many $100,000 actuaries or petroleum engineers got their job through ONLINE DEGREES.
Thursday, March 05, 2009
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