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High in the mountains, at the heart of Kyrgyzstan Thanks to the driver, we reach the pass at 3,400 metres - very cold, but we did arrive.  T...

I will soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular weekly or monthly work, and major projects. Here are the ma...

I may soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular work, or for larger, longer-term projects. Here are the ma...

In Der Spiegel's recent revelations about the far-reaching nature of the NSA's spykit , it mentions several US companies, Samsun...

We've written a number of times of the various ways in which China tries to police its online world. These include punishing individu...

Techdirt has often written about CCTV surveillance , and its many pitfalls. But according to this story in the South China Morning Post, ...

It is neither a secret nor much of a surprise that China keeps its media under tight control . But one knock-on consequence of its rise ...

Remember all those years ago, when people laughed at the first Android phones (which were, to tell the truth, pretty clunky, but still......

Last week we wrote about China's worrying new censorship approach, which threatens up to three years in prison for those spreading...

In the recent demonstrations in Istanbul, the Turkish government may have had superior police and security forces on the streets, but on...

As we've noted before, the online community is kept on a pretty tight leash in China, with information deemed subversive or just emba...

One of the long-running jokes in the free software world is that this year will finally be the year of open source on the desktop - just ...

News that the NSA has unfettered access to most of the leading Internet services inevitably has an international dimension. After all, ...

Today is June 4th, a day pretty much like any other day in most parts of the world. But in China, June 4th has a unique significance be...

You might have hoped that the extensive discussions that took place around SOPA a year or so ago would have warned off governments elsew...

It will hardly come as a surprise to anyone to learn that a popular writer and well-known critic of China's pervasive censorship sys...

Techdirt has been writing for a while about China's policy of providing incentives to file patents -- regardless of whether those pat...

It's hardly a surprise these days that Chinese Internet companies routinely self-censor what appears on their services: the world kno...

The Spratly Islands are some 750 reefs, atolls and islands in the South China Sea that are claimed variously by Brunei, the People'...

Although China is often glibly dismissed as little more than an imitator of others, yet another story about copying paradoxically shows ...