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Hey look, another story about the Chinese government spying on foreign companies through the internet, hacking accounts, and dropping malware on people!
This time the British intelligence agency MI5 warned a large range of British companies in 2008 about the threat of Chinese espionage and methods used by Chinese spies to entrap foreign executives.
But a starkly […]

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Ending NASA’s control of manned American space flight and moving these responsibilities to private contractors sounds like as bad idea as is possible in the early twenty-first century. NASA has been successfully putting Americans into space for research and exploration for over half a century. Why would companies who are just beginning to experiment with […]

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Josh Schrei has a truly excellent piece on The Huffington Post about why Google’s decision to end it’s partnership with the Chinese government should be a model for all Western companies doing business in China. The whole thing is worth a read, but this passage stands out:
While I applaud Google for their brave decision, their […]

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In an email circulating among China rights activists, BBC and Public Radio International reporter, Mary Kay Magistad reports:
I’m writing this at 10:30am on Jan. 13 in Beijing, where for the past hour or more a Google search for “Tiananmen” pulls up, at the top, graphic photos and descriptions of the crackdown, a Google search on […]

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Much has been made of Google’s blog notice that it may soon be shutting down Google.cn, a search engine built in partnership with the censorship requests of the Chinese government.  The post cites a major targeted attack on Google and twenty other top companies originating from China, with an apparent goal of hacking into the […]

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The story has been circulating for a few days, but I wanted to highlight it anyway. The Tibetan Government in Exile, other world governments, and many Tibet Support Groups have been the target of malicious cyber attacks and spying from China. The New York Times has a long piece on China’s GhostNet and the research […]

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ValleyWag has a post up trying to determine which individual connected to the Obama campaign’s new media team deserves credit for it all as top “web guru.” I can’t imagine a less relevant question. As the post shows, there were many people taking part in many key aspects of the new media operation. It was […]

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Tim Karr of Free Press makes a convincing case that the WSJ piece on Google and net neutrality is bunk. Karr is probably one of the two or three most important leaders in the fight to preserve net neutrality. If he says there’s nothing to the Journal piece, I’ll take his word for it.

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Shorter Google:
Hey we can afford tiered service in a non-net neutrality world. What, can’t you?
Google isn’t a partner with the progressive movement. They will sometimes line up with us, but at the end of the day they will choose to act on behalf of their corporate bottom line and not their motto of “Don’t Be […]

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Nancy Scola of techPresident writes about the SEIU New Media team that I’m a proud member of.
Labor Online: The SEIU HQ down in DC has been busy putting together something of a web all-star team. First the Dodd campaign’s Tim Tagaris donned the purple, and now Matt Browner-Hamlin (Dodd campaign, the Senate run of […]

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