No news is some news

Posted on Tue 10 May 2011 in geek • Tagged with censorship, information theory

There is currently a lot of consternation around Twitter users attempting to circumnavigate the latest batch of so called super-injunctions. The approach being taken by twitter users seems to involve throwing up a number of informed guesses as to the subjects of these injunctions and seeing what gets taken down …


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Google's change of heart

Posted on Wed 13 January 2010 in geek • Tagged with censorship, china, google, politics

So Google are finally having second thoughts about their relationship with China. We may see then end of google.cn as a search engine that filters search results that might embarrass the authorities.

Google got a lot of stick at the time when they first created their Chinese presence. In …


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