Posts Tagged ‘censorship’

social media and social credit system

One of China’s biggest social networks is revealing user locations to head off ‘bad behaviour’

https://www.techradar.com/news/one-of-chinas-biggest-social-networks-is-revealing-user-locations-to-head-off-bad-behaviour

euters reports that Weibo will begin showing the rough locations of its users using IP addresses to combat “bad behaviour” online. The locations show up on both profiles and posts.

Chinese citizens have long resorted to using VPNs and other privacy tools to help either access non-Chinese services or speak freely online and you can see why.

In a similar view to the Panopticon, visibly showing users that the service knows where they are will lead to self-censorship, reducing the strain on Chinese censors to cover an internet with hundreds of millions of users.

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more on social credit system in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=china+social

Library and information science and ethics

literature:

https://www.ifla.org/g/faife/professional-codes-of-ethics-for-librarians/ и наред с IFLA е добре да се има пред вид ЮНЕСКО https://en.unesco.org/themes/ethics-science-and-technology/ethics-education
https://www.essaysauce.com/education-essays/ethics-library-information-science-lis-professionals/

https://www.uniassignment.com/essay-samples/information-technology/ethics-and-professionalism-in-library-information-technology-essay.php

https://www.springer.com/journal/10676 (за мен би било интересно да видя/чуя студентите ти как се „разграничават” от ИТ специалистите). Статиите в това списание интересни ли са им? Ако не са, защо? Как те виждат бъдещата си професия и т.н.). Ако се окаже, че повечето се разграничават, тогава да обсъдят тази статия: https://utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/jelis-62-4-2020-0106?journalCode=jelis
https://www.i-c-i-e.org/
https://www.academia.edu/4896164/Information_Ethics_II_Towards_a_Unified_Taxonomy

https://urresearch.rochester.edu/fileDownloadForInstitutionalItem.action?itemId=8334&itemFileId=17570
https://www.amazon.com/Studies-Library-Information-Science-Ethics/dp/0786433671
five categories: intellectual freedom, privacy, intellectual property, professional ethics, and intercultural information ethics

https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Library_and_Information_Science/Ethics_and_Values_in_the_Information_Professions (syllabus, как твоя клас се различава от този? Прилича на този?)
https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-3363 (това видео, повече от час, сравнено с предния учебен план, интересно)
https://repository.arizona.edu/bitstream/handle/10150/105520/fallislibraryhitech.pdf?sequence=1 (преглед на теориите, методологията)
http://article.sapub.org/10.5923.j.library.20180701.01.html  и https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228428173_Where_is_Information_Ethics_in_Iranian_Library_and_Information_Science_Publications_and_Services
(тези две са интересни, защото са case study и по манталитет, ресурси и т.н., ние сме по близо до Нигерия и Иран, отколкото САЩ). Ето, да се противопостави на тази статия: https://divine-noise-attack.info/Case-Studies-In-Library-And-Information-Science-Ethics%7CKathrine-A.-Henderson.cgi и тази също https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/masters_papers/g732dd51k
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Ethical-Aspects-of-Library-and-Information-Science-Rubin-Froehlich/e251e778686c9c9e6f9ce6440cf5c99191563874
collection development, censorship, privacy, reference services, copyright, administrative concerns, information access, technology-related issues, and problems with conflicting loyalties

https://urresearch.rochester.edu/fileDownloadForInstitutionalItem.action?itemId=8334&itemFileId=17570

https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/106536/Contribution_368_final.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/case-studies-in-library-and-information-science-ethics-elizabeth-a-buchanan/1101364048 това е книга, мога да се опитам

https://uni-mysore.ac.in/assets/downloads2011/PHD-syllabus/Library-Information-Science.pdf В Индия, разглеждат етиката като част от изследователските методи. Това може да е полезно, ако наистина мислите за магистърска програма.
https://simmonslis.libguides.com/AppliedEthics_and_LAMs/applied_ethics libguide (споменах ви за платформата)

Apple in China

Apple built the world’s most valuable business on top of China. Now it has to answer to the Chinese government.

https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-censorship-data.amp.html

Two decades ago, as Apple’s operations chief, Mr. Cook spearheaded the company’s entrance into China, a move that helped make Apple the most valuable company in the world and made him the heir apparent to Steve Jobs. Apple now assembles nearly all of its products and earns a fifth of its revenue in the China region. But just as Mr. Cook figured out how to make China work for Apple, China is making Apple work for the Chinese government.

Mr. Cook often talks about Apple’s commitment to civil liberties and privacy. But to stay on the right side of Chinese regulators, his company has put the data of its Chinese customers at risk

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more on Apple in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=apple+

tik tok censorship

 

TikTok says it doesn’t censor content, but a user was just locked out after a viral post criticizing China

TikTok says it doesn’t censor content, but a user was just locked out after a viral post criticizing China from technology

Families of missing Uighurs use Tiktok video app to publicise China detentions

/https://uighurtimes.com/index.php/families-of-missing-uighurs-use-tiktok-video-app-to-publicise-china-detentions/


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Nov. 28, 2019

TikTok sorry for blocking teenager who disguised Xinjiang video as make-up tutorial

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/28/tiktok-says-sorry-to-us-teenager-blocked-after-sharing-xinjiang-videos

A spokesman for the platform on Thursday blamed a “human moderation error” for the removal of a video by 17-year-old Feroza Aziz disguised as a makeup tutorial to avoid being censored.

Owned by the Beijing-based technology company ByteDance, TikTok is one of few Chinese apps that have gained popularity outside of China. TikTok has said that it does not apply Chinese censorship rules on the international version of its app.

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more on tik tok in this iMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=tik+tokhttps://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=tik+tok

WeChat surveillance

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/29/751116338/china-intercepts-wechat-texts-from-u-s-and-abroad-researcher-says

Chinese cyberspace is one of the most surveilled and censored in the world. That includes WeChat. Owned by Tencent, one of China’s biggest companies, the chat-meets-payment app has more than 1 billion monthly users in China and now serves users outside the country, too, although it does not divulge how many. Researchers say its use abroad has extended the global reach of China’s surveillance and censorship methods.

“The intention of keeping people safe by building these systems goes out the window the moment you don’t secure them at all,” says Victor Gevers, co-founder of the nonprofit GDI Foundation, an open-source data security collective.

Every day, Gevers scans the Internet for vulnerabilities to find unsecured databases, and he has exposed a large number of them, particularly linked to China.

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more on WeChat and surveillance in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=wechat

China and Microsoft Bing

China Restores Public Access To Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine

January 24, 20195:31 AM ET  

Microsoft President and Chief Legal Counsel Brad Smith explained that it’s not the first time the search engine has been blocked. “It happens periodically,” he said in an interview with Fox Business News from Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday.

“You know, we operate in China pursuant to some global principles that’s called the Global Network Initiative in terms of how we manage censorship demands and the like,” he said.

Although Bing enjoyed only about 2 percent of China’s search engine market, its banishment was significant in a country known for controlling electronic access to information. With Bing blocked, China’s citizens had even fewer options for finding information on the Internet.

 

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