China blocks IMDb after Google coup
Adding to an ever-growing list of forbidden sites in China is the Internet Movie Database (IMDb.com), after the Chinese government seems to have blocked all access to the site since Wednesday.
Adding to an ever-growing list of forbidden sites in China is the Internet Movie Database (IMDb.com), after the Chinese government seems to have blocked all access to the site since Wednesday.
Google Inc. said it may pull out of China after finding out that major cyber attacks on its e-mail service last month originated from the country.
“Black jails”, illegal prisons that are kept hidden by the government, have been confirmed to exist in China, according to weekly magazine run by the state itself.
The People’s Republic of China announced on Friday that it is set to launch its second lunar probe in October next year and a manned space mission in 2017.
Beluga whale saves diver paralysed with cramps.
After the riot happened in Xinjiang, Northwestern China, where 140 people have been killed due to the clash between the demostrators and the police, the government of China controlled the country’s media by blocking sites like Twitter and Facebook. Two weeks ago, almost all Google services have also been blocked.
A study by three researchers from the Computer Science and Engineering Division of The University of Michigan presents conclusions that the Green Dam-Youth Escort censorship software that China mandates has serious vulnerabilities that will allow its host computer to be easily controlled by a third party.
Google complied to a Chinese government order that coerces them to disable certain search functions on google.cn, Google’s search domain for China. China has accused Google of being a major cause of the infiltration of pornography in the country.
China tightened its belts against free speech and information once again when they ordered Google to shut down certain search features on google.cn as an anti-pornography measure. Features affected include keyword suggestion and searching for information from foreign web sites.