Wikipedia is apparently no longer accessible to those in
Shanghai and
other parts of China, reports say, while Boing Boing
reports
a Chinese activist takes Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang to task in an
open letter for
turning over
information about a journalist, seeing that as "helping the Communist party
maintain an evil system of control over freedom of information and speech." And
now that Taiwan’s happy
not to be a
Chinese province on Google Maps, China’s
disappointed a
the move.
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