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How hard is it to disconnect a country from the Internet, really?
The key to the Internet’s survival is the Internet’s decentralization — and it’s not uniform across the world… Here’s a map of the world, with countries colored according to the Internet diversity at the international frontier.
Google, Gmail, and other Google services seem to be accessible again in China this morning, according to a report, after an outage that coincided with the start of the once-a-decade meeting to appoint a new Communist government.
Access to the services returned after 6 a.m. local time, after an approximately 12-hour outage, according to IDC News Service, which cited Google’s Transparency Report, along with confirmation from GreatFire.org, a group that monitors Internet censorship in China.
» via CNET
Thanks God!
A California judge refused Thursday to order YouTube to remove controversial footage from “Innocence of Muslims,” the inflammatory film that sparked a U.S. backlash in the Middle East.
A woman who starred in the film, Cindy Lee Garcia, asked a Los Angeles County judge to take down the film because she said she was fired from her job, received death threats and was tricked into starring in the “hateful anti-Islamic production.” The film has possibly led to the killing of J. Chrisopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya and about two dozen others the past week.
» via Wired
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Censorship tells the wrong story
Advertising Agency: Memac Ogilvy & Mather Dubai, UAE
Executive Creative Director: Steve Hough
Creative Director: Ramzi Moutran
Art Directors: Leonardo Borges, Rafael Rizuto
Copywriter: Sascha Kuntze
Photographer: Atp.
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A temporary solution to the drama that unfolded this morning when Twitter was blocked in Pakistan — some believe over representations of the Prophet Mohammed and Twitter’s refusal to block these images; and some believe while it was testing an image filtering service. Whatever it was, the site is now back up –after an order from Prime Minister.
Pakistan’s Express Tribune is reporting that Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani made the decision after the site was down for the day on a mandate from the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. But it is still not clear why the authorities shut down access in the first place.
» via TechCrunch
Censorship nerds: You must check out Blocked on Weibo, an amazingly useful and informative blog about what’s being blocked in China, and why. Kudos to Jason Q. Ng for producing and maintaining such a great resource for those of us who don’t speak Chinese but want to follow the ebbs and flows and ups and downs of Internet censorship in China.
Technology undermining states undermining technology. Awesome.
(via infoneer-pulse)
