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Beijing Olympics: Faking scandal over girl who 'sang' in opening ceremony - Telegraph - 0 views

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  • Mary Barzee on 01 Aug 10
     
    Story about the little lip syncing girl at the opening ceremonies of the Olympics and how the other little girl who was originally supposed to sing was deemed unacceptable for the show at the last minute because of her buck teeth
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Google to Stop Directing All China Users to Hong Kong Site - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "Google plans to stop automatically sending users in mainland China to its uncensored Hong Kong site, in an effort to appease Beijing as it seeks to renew its license to operate in China. "
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Google China: Flowers Laid On Google Sign In Beijing (Photos) | NowPublic News Coverage - 0 views

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    "Yesterday, Google announced its plans to re-route Chinese traffic to avoid censorship. Google will no longer censor google.cn. Instead, Google will now redirect all Chinese traffic to google.com.hk as a loophole around censorship imposed by Chinese government where it is no longer legally obliged to censor its content. * Google Reroutes China Traffic to Avoid Censorship In a statement, Google said it has discovered that the Gmail accounts of some of the human rights activists in China were being "routinely" accessed by third parties. "
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CampusProgress.org | Field Report | After Banning Facebook in China, Social Media Still... - 0 views

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  • China has more Internet users than any other country
  • China’s largely anonymous right-wing, online message board community commands disproportionate attention from Communist Party leaders seeking to keep their fingers on the pulse of public opinion
  • Facebook competitors delighted at the bans, quickly sweeping in to claim market share.
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  • in July of 2009, Facebook and Twitter were both banned by the government in the aftermath of violent protests by ethnic Uighurs in China’s Western Xinjiang province
  • Renrenwang
  • founded by college students at a prestigious university — Tsinghua in Beijing
  • rom “Xiaonei,” meaning “within the school,” to “Renren,” meaning “everyone
  • The Chinese site has entirely borrowed Facebook’s interface, including the news feed, app menus, status updates, “wall,” profile, photo albums, notifications, and chat feature — they’re all exactly as they appear on Facebook
  • more people use Qzone, the personal blogging feature of ubiquitous instant messaging program QQ
  • A Qzone page is more of a personal blog than a Facebook-style “profile”; people post their thoughts and photographs chronologically, and members can communicate by public comments or private messages.
  • As for Renren? “I only use that to steal other people’s vegetables”, Qiong says — a reference to a hosted app that allows users to grow and sell virtual crops, itself a model borrowed by the popular Farmville in the US.
  • Mary Barzee on 07 Jul 10
     
    The ban of Facebook and Twitter just served to strenghthen Chinese run social networks. One of which has "borrowed" the interface of Facebook. This article talks about a few of the popular Chinese social networking sites.
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