China: Welcoming and Censoring

Seeded on Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:22 PM EDT (FOXNews.com)

A Chinese dissident software developer comments on government censorship and his efforts to hack the "Great Firewall of China." Includes a video interview with Bill Xia.

technology, olympics, china, beijing, hacker, communist-party, hacking, internet-censorship, hacktivist, great-firewall-of-china

The future of energy

Seeded on Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:02 PM EDT (The Economist)

Editorial in The Economist regarding what wealthy nations should do to prevent the current alternative fuels push from becoming the passing fad it was in the 1970s.

coal, gasoline, petroleum, world-news, alternative-fuels, biofuels

Hacking the "Great Firewall of China"

Seeded on Wed Jun 18, 2008 10:36 PM EDT (FOXNews.com)

Some of the biggest advocates and conduits for free speech in America are simultaneously helping Chinese authorities censor the Internet in that country. Outraged by this apparent double standard, New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith is calling for change.

google, yahoo, china, internet, microsoft, free-speech, cisco, tiananmen-square, world-news, censorship