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Online Vigilantes, Or "Crowdsourced Justice"
destinyland writes “The Chinese credit the ‘human flesh search engine’ for successfully locating ‘the kitten killer of Hangzhou’ from clues in her online video. But in February, the same force identified a teenage cat-abuser in Oklahoma — within 24 hours of his video’s appearance on YouTube. ‘Netizens are the new Jack Bauer,’ argues one science writer, and with three billion potential detectives, ‘attempts to hide will only add thrill to the chase.’ But China’s vigilantes ultimately turned their attention to China’s Internet Propaganda Office, bypassing censorship of a director’s personal information using social networks, including Twitter. The author suggests there’s a new principle emerging in the online world: ‘The Internet does not forget, does not forgive and cannot be stopped. Ever.’”
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Chinese Government To Mandate PC Censorware
An anonymous reader writes “The Chinese government has sponsored the development of a censorware package called ‘Green Dam Youth Escort’; basically a PC-resident IP blocker that gets regular updates of banned sites from a central government site. There are now plans afoot to mandate that all new PCs sold in China be shipped with this software. The rationale behind this is to ’stop the poisoning of children’s minds.’”
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Chinese Government To Mandate PC Censorware
An anonymous reader writes “The Chinese government has sponsored the development of a censorware package called ‘Green Dam Youth Escort’; basically a PC-resident IP blocker that gets regular updates of banned sites from a central government site. There are now plans afoot to mandate that all new PCs sold in China be shipped with this software. The rationale behind this is to ’stop the poisoning of children’s minds.’”
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GM’s Hummer Brand To Be Sold To a Chinese Company
An anonymous reader writes in to note that GM will sell its Hummer brand to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co. of China, a little-known industrial firm. For now, the deal will save 3,000 jobs in the US. (The military HumVees are made by a separate company and are not involved in this deal.) “As part of the deal, some GM plants will continue to build the Hummer brand for the new owner, at least for awhile. The company said its Shreveport, La., plant will keep building Hummers for the new owner until at least 2010. … GM said it sold 5,013 Hummers worldwide in the first quarter, down 62% from the 13,050 that it sold in the same period the prior year.” AP coverage has more details on GM’s planned divestitures, including the shedding of Pontiac, Saturn, and Saab.
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Rumors Flying About New iPhone Capabilities
Jumping on the completely unconfirmed rumor bandwagon, it seems that there have been photos leaked for the new iPhone, which include things like an auto-focus camera, video capture, and a compass. The photos were originally displayed (and then quickly removed) on a Chinese forum, and quickly spread to many other sites, including a complete human translation on the MacRumors forum. Looks like Apple security may have to break a few more pocket protectors to keep employees in line.
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Poster on Chinese forum leaks next-gen iPhone specs
A poster on an Chinese Apple site claims to have played with Apple’s next-gen iPhone, and he spills the beans on the specs – More RAM, quicker processor, 3.2 Megapixel camera with autofocus and more
Put NSA in Charge of CyberSecurity Or the Power Grid Gets It
They’re baaaack. Those impish Chinese government cyber-saboteurs we last saw posing as 20-foot high trees to trigger the 2003 northeast power outage are back in an all new adventure, this time in the pages of the Wall Street Journal.
Chinese online gaming nears $3 billion annually
Online games in China are big business. When will the US catch up?
Google offers China one million free songs
Chinese music-lovers will be offered more than one million songs for free after Google launched a free music download site in China this week in a bid to tackle the internet piracy menace in China.
Chinese Censors Douse Lights on YouTube
China reportedly has blocked access to YouTube without providing Google, which owns the video-sharing site, with any official explanation — or even confirmation that it has indeed turned the site dark. It’s suspected that the government objected to recently uploaded videos of Chinese police beating Tibetan monks. China has blocked access to YouTube in the past on similar grounds. China’s silence on the access blockage is standard operating procedure, according to Usha C. V. Haley, an Asia fellow at Harvard Kennedy School.
