Chinese internet control:Chinese internet control:Corporate collaborationCorporate collaboration

Rebecca MacKinnon 4/20/2006 www.RConversation.com

Aiding Big Brother:Aiding Big Brother:

Yahoo! aids in jailing of dissidents, heavily Yahoo! aids in jailing of dissidents, heavily filters Chinese-language search engine;filters Chinese-language search engine;

Google has rolled out a censored Chinese-Google has rolled out a censored Chinese-language search-engine, Google.cnlanguage search-engine, Google.cn

MSN censors Chinese bloggersMSN censors Chinese bloggers Cisco sells technology to Chinese police & Cisco sells technology to Chinese police &

its routers help censor the internetits routers help censor the internet Skype filters text chat Skype filters text chat

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Yahoo! Aids arrest & Yahoo! Aids arrest & sentencingsentencing

of Shi Tao, Li Zhi, Jiang Lizhi, of Shi Tao, Li Zhi, Jiang Lizhi, others?others?

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Flg yahoo china searchFlg yahoo china search

QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Wu hao yahoo china searchWu hao yahoo china search

Chinese Yahoo search results For name of detained filmmaker “Wu Hao”

.. no information about his detention,Mainly about other people with same name.

Wu hao google comparative Wu hao google comparative searchsearch

Google disclaimerGoogle disclaimer

Notice on Google.cn: “According to local laws and regulations,

A portion of search results do not appear.”

Blog of Zhao Jing (Michael Anti)- blocked on Chinese ISP’s

“Anti” moved his blog to MSN Spaces last October after his blog-city bog was blocked. But on December 30th the entire contents of his new blog were

deleted by Microsoft personnel from the MSN Spaces servers.

MSN Spaces test blog:

Effort to post “Falun Gong”

in blog post title

getserror message:

“This item contains Forbidden language. Please remove the forbidden language

From this item.”

Same results when attempting to post “Tibetan Independence” in the blog’s title. This is all done from the U.S. on a U.S. ISP.

That means, Microsoft is preventing Chinese bloggersWORLDWIDE from writing on these subjects.

Efforts to post forbiddenwords in the text body(not titles of the posts)

were ultimately Successful.

…however 4 days later,the whole blog containing

those sensitive wordswas shut down from

inside the MSN system.Thus, by Microsoft

employees.

(NOTE: due to bad publicityin early January, Microsoft

says they now only dothis in response to Chinese

government formal requests,and access is denied only toChinese PRC users viewing

from Chinese ISP’s.)

MSN Spaces now hosts blog by sister of detained filmmaker Wu Hao.

As of April 4th it is notblocked to Chinese internet users.

This is an example of how public criticismhelped change Microsoft practice and policy.

All Chinese blog hosting services censor in various ways.BlogCN error message blocks attempt to post entry

about Falun Gong.

BlogBus shows *** where the 3 characters for “Falun Gong” were typed.

Bokee allows creation of a blog with politically sensitive content, but not for long…

2 days later that blog is taken down from the server.

Skype: Chinese partner filters text chatSkype: Chinese partner filters text chat

Skype’s Jaanus Kase explains…Skype’s Jaanus Kase explains…

““Skype has a joint venture with TOM Online. As part of Skype has a joint venture with TOM Online. As part of that venture, we provide a co-branded version of Skype that venture, we provide a co-branded version of Skype called TOM-Skype, which is the version of Skype that is called TOM-Skype, which is the version of Skype that is available in mainland China.available in mainland China.As part of the joint venture, TOM provides guidance to As part of the joint venture, TOM provides guidance to Skype about how to co-operate with local laws and Skype about how to co-operate with local laws and regulations in China. In every country we operate in, we regulations in China. In every country we operate in, we always work with local authorities to follow local laws always work with local authorities to follow local laws and best practice.and best practice.TOM operates a text filter in TOM-Skype. The filter TOM operates a text filter in TOM-Skype. The filter operates solely on text chats. The filter has a list of operates solely on text chats. The filter has a list of

words which will not be displayed in Skype chats.”words which will not be displayed in Skype chats.”

Skype’s Jaanus Kase Skype’s Jaanus Kase says:says:

User

Company

Government

What do you do when the user’s rights & interests and What do you do when the user’s rights & interests and the the

host government’s interests are clearly in conflict?host government’s interests are clearly in conflict?