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...national barrier aimed at preventing those on the inside from accessing information about certain ideas viewed as “dangerous,” dissenting, or sensitive.The “OpenNet Intiative,” a project based out of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, has studied Internet filtering in these countries, and what they’ve found is at once not terribly surprising and, to those tuned to American notions of free speech and expression, quite alarming. The internet is, it turns out, a scary place for certain norms of Chinese...
...funny film. But its humor is rooted in the intractable narcissism and brutal selfishness of its protagonists. One laughs during “Squid” not out of delight, but in recognition of human stupidity at its apogee. The worst offender in this respect is household head Bernard Berkman (Jeff Daniels): he is a novelist whose literary reputation is diminishing in inverse proportion to his sense of entitlement and self-worth. For example, when asked by his teenaged son whether or not to bother reading “The Metamorphosis” he replies: “Kafka...
According to John Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, as the law stands now, it is legal for companies to distribute software that makes it possible to share files illegally...
...past Web police monitors, the vast majority of China's 100-million online population will search in vain for Mandarin equivalents of the Drudge Report, blog screeds and independent journalism that define free online speech in most of the world. A recent study by Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society concluded that "China's Internet filtering regime is the most sophisticated effort of its kind in the world...
...Bernard Berkman is an uncertain egotist. The author of several novels that beguiled the literati once upon a time, he now has no agent--so he feels he has to promote himself, even to his own family. (He refers to Kafka as "one of my predecessors.") The rest of his life is getting away from him too. His tennis game isn't what it used to be. His wife, restless in his shadow, has turned to writing and got a story in the New Yorker. She has also called off their marriage, leaving their two sons shuffling back and forth...