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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Google has told about censorship of the services in 25 countries of the world

It's Google

Google has informed, that their services are blocked in 25 of 100 countries in which corporation Google carries out the activity.

By order of the government...

Access for Internet users to products of Google is limited under the decision of the governments of the states, about this informed the vice-president Rachel Whetstone in the official blog devoted to a state policy of the European countries.

The vivid example of restriction of access to services of Google it's China, they provides obligatory censorship of search inquiries. It became the conflict reason between Google and the Chinese government when the company has refused to carry out censorship in reply to hacker attack to the corporate network.

Authoritative censorship

However besides search restriction, in China other services of the company, for example: Sites, Blogs and service of editing and an exchange of photos Picasa are blocked also. Video hosting Youtube which belongs Google also is inaccessible for the Chinese users.

The company Google has not specified the list of the countries which impose an interdiction for Google services, having underlined, that more often in a role of censors act the authoritative states, such as China and Vietnam.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

In China has ceased to work Google

Google search

The search inquiries sent on March, 30th by inhabitants of China from main page Google, did not give out results. Instead of them at users the empty page with the information on a search error was loaded, writes The Los Angeles Times. Also the error led to connection rupture to the Internet. Thus other services Google continued to work.

The Chinese block

This malfunction has been fixed in territory of continental China. Chinese users Twitter have started to inform on malfunctions in the searcher about five o'clock in the evening on local time. Thus service of microblogs Twitter in territory of China is officially blocked, therefore it is necessary for users "to apply technical cunnings" to publish a content.

Error or Consequence?

Google officially has not commented on a situation, and remains not clear, whether are errors of search a measure accepted by the Chinese government in reply to refusal Google to carry out censorship of search inquiries. Google has made decision to refuse from censorship on March, 22nd, in reply to hacker attacks to the corporate network.

At the moment the Chinese visitors of site Google.cn are automatically redirected on Hong Kong portal Google.com.hk. Further search is carried out by means of the servers also located in Hong Kong. It allows the searcher not to fulfil the requirement of the Chinese government on obligatory censorship of search inquiries.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

To the British schoolboys will show only useful video

YouTube

In the Great Britain have developed the special filter for site YouTube which will allow to use a video portal for teaching at schools. As newspaper The Times, cost specially developed for this purpose Bloxx Media Filter writes makes from 2,5-10,000 pounds sterling a year depending on number of served computers.

Very high degree of a filtration

Earlier on all school British computers schools installed the filter which completely blocks access to YouTube. Was considered, that on a site it is too much the videoclips containing frank scenes and scenes of violence. However teachers complained, that cannot use many useful educational materials which are available on YouTube. It is a question, in particular, of videorecordings of research experiments which are too dangerous for carrying out in a class with children, about scenes from classical statements of Shakespearean plays and about other informative materials.

Bloxx Media Filter, besides a filtration of videoclips, cuts from them the user comments, and also automatically generated list of links on similar videos.

Bloxx Media Filter for the British schools — the expensive pleasure

Representatives of public organisations under the control over an expenditure of budgetary funds have already stated concern too high, in their opinion, by the filter.

Monday, January 18, 2010

In China have blocked access to IMDb

IMDb

Since January, 13th the Chinese authorities have blocked access from country territory to site Internet Movie Database (IMDb.com), belonging to company Amazon and being the world's largest database of the film industry. On it informs British edition The Register. The Chinese administration motivated with nothing the actions.

International film portal

The resource content is accessible in 5 languages — besides the English version is available also German, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese copies of a site. Besides news of cinema base IMDb contains data almost about all films which ever were acting in film in the world, some of which are officially forbidden to distribution to China. Also the site allows the users to accept active participation in filling and cataloguing of a database of films, that too could serve as an occasion to access closing to a resource in territory of the Peoples Republic of China.

The Chinese authorities in large quantities block access to the Internet

Lately in China access to many large foreign resources has been closed, including YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Also the authorities have toughened registration of domain names by citizens of the country and have blocked access to certain sites.

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