Today's Fresh Blogs...

• More Yahoo! China documents emerge

  Published: July 31, 2007, 6:12 am

  Tags: China, Corporate Responsibility, Freedom Of Speech, Human Rights

  groups to develop global corporate principles for freedom of speech and privacy. Internet and telecoms companies should handle every government information request anywhere with a mind to the possibility all the documents related to that case could leak one day - or politics could change and secret police archives could suddenly become

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• Shi Tao's case: Yahoo! knew more than they claimed

  Published: July 29, 2007, 4:18 am

  Tags: China, Corporate Responsibility, Freedom Of Speech, Human Rights, Yahoo

  Yahoo! executives say one thing in public, an official Chinese document says something else. Oops. I just discovered today that the Dui Hua Foundation, which does excellent, low-key work on Chinese human rights issues, has a blog. Last week they posted a full English translation (PDF) of a document that has surfaced recently on the web: the

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• Jimmy Wales: Google's China mistake

  Published: August 3, 2007, 9:29 pm

  Tags: China, Corporate Responsibility, Freedom Of Speech, Wikipedia

  Wikipedia founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales says that Wikia, his new for-profit wiki and search engine company, will never censor its content or compromise its users the way Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others have done in China. In Taipei at Wikimania, the annual world conference for people who work on Wikipedia and all its associated

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• Chinese bloggers thumb their noses at "self discipline"

  Published: August 27, 2007, 2:17 pm

  Tags: Censorship, China, Corporate Responsibility, Freedom Of Speech, Human Rights, Weblogs

  As I was digging myself out of the vacation e-mail backlog, I found a pile of alarmed messages. They contained various versions of this story on the Chinese self-discipline pledge that a number of blog hosting services including MSN and Yahoo! signed last week. Before doing anything I checked in with some Chinese bloggers. I found people

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• Full legal documents: Yahoo!'s asks court to dismiss jailed Chinese dissidents' lawsuit

  Published: August 28, 2007, 12:40 pm

  Tags: China, Corporate Responsibility, Freedom Of Speech, Human Rights, Law, Yahoo

  Yesterday Yahoo! filed a request to dismiss the U.S. lawsuit against it for its role in the jailing of Chinese dissidents Wang Xiaoning, Shi Tao and others. As the Washington Post reports: Yahoo acknowledged releasing personal user information about the writers to the Chinese government, but said it had to comply with the country's lawful request

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• Eating "River Crab" at the Harmonious Forum

  Published: September 11, 2007, 1:22 pm

  Tags: Censorship, China, Corporate Responsibility, Freedom Of Speech, Weblogs

  Over the weekend I posted this photo titled "eating river crab that wears three watches" to my Flickr account. People who don't read Chinese blogs are - understandably - asking why. Let me explain.    At the World Economic Forum in Dalian last week Issac Mao and I were there in person when Premier Wen Jiabao broke major

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• China's Censorship 2.0

  Published: October 12, 2007, 2:44 pm

  Tags: Censorship, China, Citizen Media, Corporate Responsibility, Cyber Activism, Freedom Of Speech, Human Rights, Web2 0, Weblogs

  On a recent trip to Beijing I visited Liu Xiaoyuan, a lawyer who is suing the Chinese web portal and blog-hosting service, Sohu, for censoring several of his blog posts. He wrote about our conversation here. The International Herald Tribune has an Associated Press article about him this week here. Liu argues that Sohu violated its own user

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• What did Yahoo! know and when did they know it?

  Published: October 19, 2007, 4:49 am

  Tags: China, Corporate Responsibility, Freedom Of Speech, Human Rights, Yahoo

  In late July, the Dui Hua Foundation posted and translated the original 2004 Chinese police order asking Yahoo! Beijing for Shi Tao's e-mail account information, in what the police specified was part of a case of suspected "illegal provision of state secrets to foreign entities." (They've taken the original PDF down for some reason, but

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• Global Online Freedom Act passes House Committee

  Published: October 23, 2007, 2:58 pm

  Tags: Censorship, Corporate Responsibility, Freedom Of Speech, Human Rights

  has more hope of improving corporate behavor on privacy and free expression without forcing U.S. companies to disengage and be perceived around the world as arms of the U.S. government. GOFA's intentions are honorable in many ways. I think many of the people who support it certainly have honorable intentions. I know and respect many of them,

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• Facebook goes to China... will it censor too?

  Published: October 30, 2007, 12:56 pm

  Tags: Censorship, China, Corporate Responsibility, Facebook, Freedom Of Speech

  Kaiser Kuo and Pacific Epoch have both picked up a report in Chinese on China-cbn.com citing an "industry insider" who says Facebook could enter China as early as December. It looks likely that their site will be censored the same way all other Web2.0 services are censored in China. See a recent blog post I wrote describing how

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• Yahoo! apologizes ahead of Congressional grilling

  Published: November 2, 2007, 4:47 am

  Tags: China, Corporate Responsibility, Freedom Of Speech, Human Rights

  The Financial Times and Dow Jones report that Yahoo! is now apologizing for not telling the full truth to Congress at the February 2006 hearing where Yahoo! was taken to task for its role in the conviction of Chinese journalist Shi Tao. However Yahoo! insists that they did not intentionally misinform Congress: Rather, senior Yahoo! executives who

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• All bonfires on Hill of Tara to be prohibited this Halloween

  Published: November 2, 2007, 8:10 pm

  Tags: Tara, Rural, Samhain, Urban Photography, Swearing, Corporate Responsibility, Ireland, Art, Irish, Fire, Meath

  Swearing, corporate_responsibility, Ireland, art, irish, fire,

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• People money!

  Published: November 5, 2007, 5:07 am

  Tags: China, Citizen Media, Corporate Responsibility, Web2 0, Weblogs

  Then you go to a more corporate-oriented Web2.0 conference where executives and business school professors talk about Web 2.0 as the latest way to deliver products and advertising to customers and viewers, and you get highly annoyed. As a user, I don't consider a business to be truly 2.0 unless it has transformed its relationship with

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• Yahoo! execs called moral "pygmies" in Congress

  Published: November 7, 2007, 1:58 pm

  Tags: China, Corporate Responsibility, Freedom Of Speech, Human Rights, Yahoo

  on the Yahoo corporate blog. Some of the comments are quite harsh, though a few are sympathetic. Declan McCullagh's live blog of the event on CNet included some observations not seen much in mainstream media coverage of the story. He muses:  "I wonder if Lantos and other Patriot Act supporters will apologize to

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• My Web2.0 Week in Beijing

  Published: November 11, 2007, 11:52 am

  Tags: China, Cnbloggercon, Corporate Responsibility, Freedom Of Speech, Web2 0

  conference was a bit more corporate/academic and less grassroots than CNBloggercon, but it still brought together some interesting people. I griped a bit about some speakers who seemed to equate human beings with dollar signs a bit more than I can tolerate, but interesting things came up. A few highlights: Isaac Mao gave a talk about how

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