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		<title> Google.cn Added ICP License Number on Monday (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beijing News is reporting (in Chinese) that one of their reporters noticed on Monday that the Google.cn landing page has added an ICP license number dated 2010. The license number had not been there before. ... The report did not clarify whether the addition of the ICP license means that the Chinese authorities have renewed Google.cn's ICP license... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20100705_googlecn_added_icp_license_number_on_monday">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Google's China Troubles Continue; Congress Examines U.S. Investment in Chinese Censorship (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his latest blog post, Google's Chief Legal Officer David Drummond reports that Chinese authorities aren't happy with the automatic redirection of Google.cn to Hong Kong. They are threatening not to renew Google's Internet Content Provider license, which is required to legally operate any kind of Internet business in China. <a href="https://circleid.com/postsgoogle_china_troubles_continue_us_investment_in_chinese_censorship">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> "One Google, One World; One China, No Google" (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[China's insomniac twitterati were on fire this afternoon U.S. time, powered no doubt by much caffeine and sugar in the the wee hours of the morning in China. Half an hour before Google's David Drummond posted his announcement</a> that Google.cn is now effectively operating from Google.com.hk, Guangzhou-based open source programmer @LEMONed broke the
news</a> that google.cn was being redirected to the Hong Kong service. Reacting to the news, @wentommy quipped: "One Google, One World; One China, No Google." <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20100322_one_google_one_world_one_china_no_google">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Google Buzzkill (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The launch of Google Buzz, the new social networking service tied to GMail, was a fiasco to say the least. Its default settings exposed people's e-mail contacts in frightening ways with serious privacy and human rights implications. Evgeny Morozov, who specializes in analyzing how authoritarian regimes use the Internet, put it bluntly last Friday in a blog post... <a href="https://circleid.com/postsgoogle_buzzkill">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Google, China, and the Future of Freedom on the Global Internet (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it's because I was schooled in political science, not computer science. But frankly I've been surprised by the extent to which some respected commentators have focused on trashing Google for lacking purity of motive. As if that were some kind of brilliant revelation. Of course Google's actions are motivated by self-interest. Self-interest is a complicated thing, and isn't only financial... But let's be honest with ourselves. How many people on the planet do anything for 100% selfless reasons? If having a free, open and just society depends on purity of motive, God help us all. <a href="https://circleid.com/postsgoogle_china_and_the_future_of_freedom_on_the_global_internet">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Google Puts Its Foot Down (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google's <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html">announcement</a> that it will "review" its business operations in China and is no longer willing to censor its Chinese search engine, Google.cn, is generating a range of reaction in China. Conversation over at the #googlecn hashtag on Twitter -- created shortly after the announcement -- has been raging fast and furious. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20100113_google_puts_its_foot_down">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> China Tightens Internet Control in the Name of Fighting Porn, Piracy, and Cybercrime (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20091214_china_internet_control_in_the_name_of_porn_piracy_cybercrime</link>
		<description><![CDATA[As the year draws to a close, China's blocking of overseas websites - including Facebook, Twitter, and thousands of other websites including my blog - is more extensive and technically more sophisticated than ever. Controls over domestic content have also been tightening. People who work for Chinese Internet companies continue to complain that they remain under heavy pressure... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20091214_china_internet_control_in_the_name_of_porn_piracy_cybercrime">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> China Isn't Happy With the IGF (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the final day of a four-day meeting, most government representatives expressed support for renewing the Internet Governance Forum's five-year mandate which ends next year. China did not. Chen Yin, the head of the Chinese delegation to the Internet Governance Forum, said yesterday that the IGF's mandate should not be continued without reforms. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20091119_china_isnt_happy_with_the_igf">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Muzzled by the United Nations (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet Governance Forum is winding down today in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. There have been a lot of very constructive conversations in workshops and panels over the past four days about how to advance security, privacy, child protection, AND human rights and free expression on the Internet. Unfortunately, the biggest headline coming out of the forum so far has been an incident on Sunday... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20091118_muzzled_by_the_united_nations">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Is America Getting More Like China? (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20091008_america_getting_more_like_china</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Since Obama became President -- and yes, I voted for him -- there has been a great deal of optimism and energy around the idea that the Internet can be used to improve or "reboot" our democracy. The Administration has hired some great people to work on making government more open and transparent. This is all great. But how much good will all of this nifty e-government do for American democracy if citizens' rights to privacy and free expression are not also fiercely defended? <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20091008_america_getting_more_like_china">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> China's Censorship Arms Race Escalates (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20090928_chinas_censorship_arms_race_escalates</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week the China Digital Times reported that a photo (shown in the post) has been making the rounds in Chinese blogs and chatrooms. It is an image of a "computer science float" for Thursday's National Day parade, onto which somebody has photoshopped a screenshot of the Internet Explorer error message familiar to anybody who has ever tried to access a blocked website in China: "This page cannot be displayed." <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20090928_chinas_censorship_arms_race_escalates">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> ICANN, Civil Society, and Free Speech (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20090727_icann_civil_society_and_free_speech</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Gordon Crovitz's <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203609204574312194225241368.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">Op-ed in the Wall Street Journal</a> about the relationship between <a href="http://icann.org">ICANN</a> and the future of free speech quotes me a couple of times... Crovitz emailed me last week when he was researching his column. I was somewhat more critical of ICANN's status quo in our exchange than in the quotes he ended up using. Following are my full answers, emailed to him on Thursday. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20090727_icann_civil_society_and_free_speech">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> ICANN and Free Speech (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Upon being appointed as ICANN's new CEO in Sydney, Rod Beckstrom gave a rousing speech in which he stressed the vital importance of free expression on the Internet... Many ordinary, powerless people are indeed willing to fight and die. But is ICANN going to help them? Or at very least make sure that their decisions won't help those who want to muzzle them? <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20090714_icann_and_free_speech">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Green Dam is Breached... Now What? (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a number of China hands predicted, the Chinese government has postponed its mandate requiring that all computers sold in China must include the Green Dam -Youth Escort censorware by today. Yesterday after the news broke I told the Financial Times: "There's been this impression in the internet industry that when the Chinese government makes a demand, they have to roll over and play dead. The lesson here is that's not necessarily the case." <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20090701_green_dam_breached_now_what">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> China's Censorship Blowback (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm not sure what the Chinese government is thinking, or whether certain parts of certain ministries and party apparatus have gotten completely out of control. Until recently, it had seemed to me that the Chinese government was managing its censorship system with surprising success... But this month, something shifted. It's unclear whether the shift is long-lasting or just temporary madness until the PRC's 60th anniversary on October 1st. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20090625_chinas_censorship_blowback">More...</a>]]></description>
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