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amy wu

Wikipedia Testing New Editing Restrictions - 0 views

www.theage.com.au/...estrictions-20090826-eyix.html

Wikipedia edit restrictions online credibility openness

shared by amy wu on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that has increasingly drawn some decidedly juvenile pranks, is looking to impose more discipline with new restrictions on the editing of articles.
  • The latest changes come as Wikipedia continues trying to balance a need for credibility and a desire for openness.
  • The idea is to block the kind of high-profile vandalism that has marred some pages.
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  • The same flagging process, for example, has been imposed on all entries in the German-language Wikipedia for more than a year.
  • Some believe Wikipedia must continue tightening editing policies if it wants to gain credibility.
  • amy wu on 27 Aug 09
     
    Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that has increasingly drawn some decidedly juvenile pranks, is looking to impose more discipline with new restrictions on the editing of articles.
glen donnar

Social Networks Spread Defiance Online - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...16media.html

social networks communication new media

shared by glen donnar on 21 Jul 09 - Cached
  • new kinds of social media are challenging those traditional levers of state media control and allowing Iranians to find novel ways around the restrictions.
  • But it appears they are finding ways around Big Brother.
    • glen donnar
      glen donnar on 21 Jul 09
       
      This is a test for me... and a test also for the Iranian regime!
glen donnar

China Puts Online Games That Glorify Mafia on Its Hit List - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...29china.html

shared by glen donnar on 29 Jul 09 - Cached
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  • This year more than a thousand Web sites have been shut down for “vulgar” content, although some critics complain that academic or public service sites that deal with sexually transmitted diseases have also been swept up in the juggernaut.
  • Industry experts say that at least 90 percent of all online games in China have some form of violence, whether they involve homicidal kung-fu masters, sword-wielding hobbits or monsters with a taste for human flesh
    • xinning ji
      xinning ji on 29 Jul 09
       
      the only thing CHinese government should do is to classify the level of games and also films. it can make people choosing approriate type of game depending on their ages, and avoid young people to reach the voilence and strong sexual behaviour.
  • There are summer camps for teenagers who spend too much online,
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  • more than 10 percent of the country’s young people are “addicted” to the Internet
  • the definition includes children who spend more than six hours a day staring at a computer screen while avoiding sleep, social interaction and schoolwork
  • 70 percent of all juvenile crimes were “induced by Internet addiction
    • glen donnar
      glen donnar on 30 Jul 09
       
      Great work, Jenny! Perhaps Sticky Notes would be good to ask a question of fellow students or for agreement on your comment.
  • Whether it is religion, environmentalism or nonprofit charities, the Chinese government has always been wary of any organized activity it cannot directly control.
  • xinning ji on 29 Jul 09
     
    even though Chinese government try the best to govern the mass media but sometimes it is hard to give the restriction on online information because of its fast speed of spread and a large amount of information.
xinning ji

Beijing bites back over Kadeer visa and iron ore prices | The Australian - 0 views

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shared by xinning ji on 17 Aug 09 - Cached
  • We regret that the Chinese government has felt obliged to take these steps, since the government's position on the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region is clear
    • xinning ji
      xinning ji on 18 Aug 09
       
      I think what Chinese government insists is that XInjiang is part of CHina. Like Melbourne, it is part of Australia. if someone or a small group said independence of Melbourne, how would AUstralian government think? it is about a national sovereignty that cannot be changed.
  • anonymous on 19 Aug 09
     
    Can China achieve its aims by acting in this way? Is closing dialogue with Australia as 'punishment' going to solve anything? And does China except us to take their political pressure to restrict constitutional rights such as freedom of speech (such as in the Kadeer case)? Just some thoughts.
Maria D'Amato

Taking on the titans - 0 views

www.theage.com.au/...-the-titans-20090904-fbgl.html

shared by Maria D'Amato on 08 Oct 09 - Cached
  • WHEN Sarah Morgan, a slenderly framed 10-year-old, came home from primary school with a McDonald's food voucher and a size 16 T-shirt that she had won in a basketball competition, her mother, a health campaigner, was livid.
  • As a three-year-old, Sarah had already associated purple with chocolate.
  • Martin says the standards released by the Australian Communications and Media Authority fail to regulate junk-food promotions on TV or thwart the sophisticated techniques employed by advertisers to create ''pester power'' - when children continually ask their parents for something. By restricting advertising only during low-rating children's programs, Martin says, the authority has ignored evidence that justifies action which could prevent up to one in three children from becoming obese.
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