Judge sides with censored blogger against Chinese ISP - Ars Technica

Ars Technica by Jacqui Cheng | May. 26, 2009 (News Report)

Do not adjust your monitors: a Chinese government critic has won a court case against his ISP in Beijing for taking his website offline. Economics professor Hu Xingdou's website was shut down by Beijing Xin Net for containing "illegal" content earlier this year, but a Daxing district court ruled last week that the ISP could not provide proof for its claims and ordered Xin Net to repay Hu's service fees from the past two years. Full Story »

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Subjects: Business, Sci/Tech, World, Media
Topics: Internet, China, Freedom of Speech
Member Tags: censorship, net neutrality, Great Firewall of China
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Posted by: Posted by Joey Baker - May 26, 2009 - 2:22 PM PDT
Reviewed by: Joey Baker (review), Don Bingham (review), Kaizar Campwala (review)
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Edited by: Joey Baker - May 26, 2009 - 2:22 PM PDT
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 by Kaizar Campwala - May. 28, 2009

I think this story does a good job of contextualizing the significance this story. It's not particularly enterprising, replying on FT reporting, but it's well presented.

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 by Joey Baker - May. 26, 2009

Quick bulletin on a land mark international court case. Well done.

Amazing to watch the fall of the Great Firewall of China.

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 by Don Bingham - May. 27, 2009

Looks good.

The influence of this ruling must be broader than the internet.

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