Oiwan Lam · June, 2009

Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from June, 2009

China: Blocking and framing Google

  25 June 2009

Last night, Google including search, gmail, document and other applications was blocked for 2 hours, although some ISPs have restored the access in couple of hours, a number of twitterers...

China: Google.cn buys Green Dam service?

  24 June 2009

Blogger dancing with G, quoted from a Google.cn source, reported that the company had spent a big sum of money to buy the Green Dam service for bettering the detection...

China: No more criticism against Green Dam!

  15 June 2009

Update: June 16 – Green Dam filter software ‘not compulsory’ – via China Daily. On June 10th, the central propaganda department issued a notice reminding all the media to report...

China: Green dam PC filtering

  8 June 2009

According to Wall Street Journal (June 8, 2009), the Chinese government has required international PC makers to equip their PC shipped to China with filter software from July 1 onward....

China: Chinese Internet Maintenance Day

  3 June 2009

On 2nd of June, a number of overseas websites including twitter, flickr and youtube have been blocked. Today, on 3rd of June, a large number of local websites, including Fanfou...

Twitter, Flickr, Bing, etc. blocked in China

  3 June 2009

With the 20th Anniversary of June 4 approaching, netizens reported that a number of social networking and peer to peer communication websites have been blocked in China, including Twitter, Flickr,...