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IsoHunt Stuck Behind China’s Great Firewall
China is no stranger to Internet censorship. The country’s Great Firewall includes many well known sites, but up until now BitTorrent sites have never been blocked. There was a short blocking incident two years ago when Mininova, isoHunt and The Pirate Bay were hijacked and redirected to the leading Chinese search engine, Baidu.
Continue reading »China Widens Net Censorship; Google Exile Looms
The Chinese government is imposing new internet restrictions demanding personal-website operators to acquire central-government permission to operate their sites. The latest censorship measure, which covers .cn domestic domains, comes as Google is trying to convince Chinese censors to ease up. Google said 43 days ago it would undertake a self-imposed exile from China if the government does not back off from requiring it to censor search results.
Continue reading »etc: Google may separate Buzz from Gmail in light of the outcry over privacy issues.
Google may separate Buzz from Gmail in light of the outcry over privacy issues. Read More: Search Engine Land , TechMeme
Continue reading »Google banned 30,000 advertisers post Economic Resurrection
Ad police suddenly affordable In the fall of 2008, when the worldwide economy began to melt, Google responded by shamelessly expanding ad coverage on its web-dominating search engine, letting more ads onto more pages. But now that the economy has recovered, the web giant has suddenly become more much vigilant in its efforts to weed out what it considers low-quality advertising.… ?
Continue reading »EFF and Study Authors Refute PFFs ‘Junk Science’ Claims
The Progress & Freedom Foundation (PFF) had some choice words expressed by a study on DMCA notices received by Google. While the posting was very pointed, the authors of the study Thomas Sydnor accused of being “junk science”, as well as the EFF, gave ZeroPaid a response to the many accusations made by the author of the blog posting The posting by Sydnor had plenty of accusations against a Chilling Effects study which was used by Google in New Zealand . It should be known that the PFF is known for being supporters of the RIAA, the MPAA and other organizations that represent a point of view that copyright should be more restrictive.
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