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...Berkman Center Web site seeks to compile data on web access and censorship around the globe. Herdict.org—whose name is a portmanteau word of “herd” and “verdict”—allows Internet users to record when a Web site appears inaccessible to them. They can also see if other users around the world are experiencing the same problem, creating a real-time database that catalogues and monitors which Web sites are down or restricted. By calling on Internet users to report their experiences, Herdict utilizes a burgeoning...
...China has shown the world in the last 30 years that development can be defined in many ways. But the combination of censorship, autocratic rule, and an oligarchic elite resented by lower classes does not bode well, particularly in times of economic downturn. If media censorship is the Chinese version of the French Bastille, perhaps the next fire at CCTV headquarters will be more than an unfortunate accident...
Even in China, where state censorship directives are dispensed daily to newspaper editors, a press revolution is under way. Over the past decade, the central government has started weaning newspapers off state subsidies. The free-market reality has forced editors to print stories that sell. While the People's Daily, the Chinese Communist Party's official mouthpiece, still publishes numbing headlines like "China-Mali Ties in Continuous Development," other newspapers are attracting readers by delving into corruption scandals and celebrity sex lives. Low Internet penetration throughout much of Asia ensures that it is newspapers - not computer or cell-phone screens...
...that in spite of the current economic climate, he hopes the University will continue to actively recruit for a diverse student body and faculty. Law School alumnus Harvey A. Silverglate, one of the two write-in candidates, said he would campaign to reform what he believes to be University censorship, as well as the College’s Administrative Board—which he deems “one of the worst, if not the worst, student disciplinary tribunals in the country...
That hasn't deterred Web vigilantes from turning their attention to officials suspected of corruption or unseemly behavior. In recent months, at least three government bureaucrats have been targeted. This week an anonymous blog post accused a high-ranking Beijing official responsible for Web censorship of disparaging the country's top leaders - President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao - and boasting that he alone decided what citizens could and couldn't read online. (See pictures of China on the wild side...