China defends screening software
China has defended the use of new screening software that has to be installed on all computers saying its purpose is to filter out pornographic and violent material. Read more here
China plans forced censorship software
China plans to enforce that all personal computers sold in the country as of 1 July have “Green Dam-Youth Escort” software designed to censor and block certain websites. Read more here
“Sex” censored on Microsoft search engine
Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft is varying search results of the term “sex” dependent on the country. The UK, US and all European countries produce long lists of results but Arabian countries, China, India and several others produce no results leading to accusations of censorship. Read more here
Journalists banned from Tiananmen on anniversary
Chinese police have cordened off Tiananmen Square, to prevent people marking the 20th anniversary of the massacre and banned foreign press. Earlier today US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged China to launch an official inquiry. Read more here