Google ‘Alphabet’ Website Not at all Live in China

The new Google holding company Alphabet, unveiled Tuesday, will own Google and other companies.

The website for Alphabet is: www.abc.xyz.

The site currently contains letter from co-founder Larry Page and a link to Google. China blocked all access to the website within 12 hours of it going live. GreatFire.org, a monitor of Internet censorship in the Asian country, says that the Alphabet website is “100% blocked.”

How much Chinese Censorship for LinkedIn?

LinkedIn launches China version despite censorship fears (via AFP)

Business networking site LinkedIn has launched a Chinese version, attempting to tap the huge market while navigating a strict censorship regime that has seen other foreign social media giants banned. China has the world's largest online community with…

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China says NO to The New York Times

China blocks Internet access to New York Times

BEIJING (Reuters) – China, widely criticized for its censorship of the media, this week blocked access to The New York Times, the newspaper said on Saturday.

When computer users in cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou tried to connect on Friday to nytimes.com, they received a message that the site was not available, the newspaper said.

There was no access to the site from Beijing late on Saturday without the protection of a virtual private network (VPN).

The State Information Office said it had no information on the case.

China says no translating Harry Potter

Children in China have been banned from translating the latest Potter book.

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Chinese authorities clamp down on media reports about food safety

Japan Today | staff

HONG KONG — China is tightening its grip on media reporting food safety problems in Beijing following a recent rebuff by the government of a pork-bun report, the South China Morning Post said Tuesday.

The Hong Kong daily said several media in China's capital city have been warned or ordered to cut down on political news coverage, especially regarding unsafe food. The report said the hardest hit was the tabloid Beijing Daily Messenger, which was told by the Publicity Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee to "scrap its political and social pages and cover only entertainment and lifestyle stories."

the Yahoo!-China censorship case

Journalist Rebecca MacKinnon reports, with new findings, on the Yahoo!-China censorship case at the RConversation blog. MacKinnon reports on who knew what when.

Yahoo caught providing information against Blogger

Yahoo caught providing information against Blogger

China's 'Great Firewall': Flickr is censored

Flickr.com is the latest website to be banned by China's censors.

read News.com::: Web users rage against China's 'Great Firewall'