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Redditors – myself included – send Helen Thomas flowers to thank her for asking Dana Perino tough questions about the Bush administration’s authorization of torture
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BBC develops a simple trojan horse application for Facebook designed to grab personal details of you, your friend and send to a third party. Shouldn’t be a surprise, but disturbing nonetheless
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Italian Deputy Economic Minister Vincenzo Visco posts income and tax information about all Italian citizens online. Revenue transparency or phenomenal privacy violation?
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Useful post from professor Xu Wu about American misperception and ignorance about contemporary China
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Poem by “silent, silent Chinese” about frustration with Western perceptions of China: “When we were silent, you said you want us to have free speech. When we were silent no more, you say we are brainwashed racists.”
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Video version of the “Silent, silent Chinese” poem
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The foreign correspondent’s club in Beijing reports that ten foreign journalists have received death threats regarding percieved biased coverage of events in Tibet
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Survey of public opinions on media freedom finds surprisingly high levels of support for government censorship in order to maintain social stability from people surveyed in Russia, Middle East