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With the closing of their search engine in China, Google acts as a groundbreaker for Internet morality. Although they will retain some of their team in China for research and development, the closing of google.cn is one that reflects the nature and social justice awareness of Google. We applaud the support these efforts, and can only [...] We wanted to draw everyone’s attention to a fantastic video put together by Foreign Correspondent. The title of the piece is The Uighur Dilemma, and it aired last July. We aren’t quite sure how we missed it the first time, but we are making up for it now. We’ve got it broken into three segments [...] It looks as if Google.cn may be removing its filters, although top officials are remaining mum. Many of the typically censored sites are now accessible through Google, and it appears that this is the start of something big. Founder of danwei.org says, “It does seem that the filters are not fully working… But no one [...] The spiritual leader of the Tibetan people came out in strong support of the Uyghurs today, drawing much attention to the isolated and strained Xinjiang province. In Dharamsala, the honorable Dalai Lama marked the 51st anniversary since he fled China in a failed attempt to unseat Communist rule in Tibet. While giving the speech, he addressed the [...] The hukou system was originally set up to serve the socialist-style command economy put into place in the 1950’s by the Communist Party. During Ms. Kadeer’s time in Xinjiang, it was required to get permission before one could travel outside of their registered location. Ms. Kadeer also ran into problems with the system because it [...] |
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