Comments on: When journalists go to jail http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/when-journalists-go-to-jail/ Notes from the classroom and observations about today's practice of journalism online Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:54:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Teaching Online Journalism » Teaching journalists to fish (no telling what they might catch) http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/when-journalists-go-to-jail/#comment-10842 Teaching Online Journalism » Teaching journalists to fish (no telling what they might catch) Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:19:17 +0000 http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/when-journalists-go-to-jail/#comment-10842 [...] 30 Vietnamese journalists. An American suggested that I should teach them how to stay safe and not get thrown into jail. I ventured that they probably think enough about that, without any advice from [...] [...] 30 Vietnamese journalists. An American suggested that I should teach them how to stay safe and not get thrown into jail. I ventured that they probably think enough about that, without any advice from [...]

]]> By: Mindy http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/when-journalists-go-to-jail/#comment-10742 Mindy Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:50:45 +0000 http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/when-journalists-go-to-jail/#comment-10742 <p>Two interesting news items from the print edition of Viet Nam News:</p> <p>Four college students received suspended jail sentences for distributing pornography online. One of them posted a sex video on his Web site and sent the link to the other three, according to the report. It was noted that this is the first court case in Vietnam involving "information of a sexual nature" posted online.</p> <p>The other item says new Vietnamese search engines have set out to compete locally with Google:</p> <p>http://www.xalo.vn/</p> <p>http://www.monava.vn/</p> <p>Also, a new undersea cable will increase bandwidth exponentially:</p> <p>http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2008/02/769690/</p> <p>The $550 million Asia-America Gateway fiber-optic cable (20,000 km) will connect Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Hong Kong, Hawaii, and the continental U.S.</p> Two interesting news items from the print edition of Viet Nam News:

Four college students received suspended jail sentences for distributing pornography online. One of them posted a sex video on his Web site and sent the link to the other three, according to the report. It was noted that this is the first court case in Vietnam involving “information of a sexual nature” posted online.

The other item says new Vietnamese search engines have set out to compete locally with Google:

http://www.xalo.vn/

http://www.monava.vn/

Also, a new undersea cable will increase bandwidth exponentially:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2008/02/769690/

The $550 million Asia-America Gateway fiber-optic cable (20,000 km) will connect Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Hong Kong, Hawaii, and the continental U.S.

]]> By: Graham http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/when-journalists-go-to-jail/#comment-10738 Graham Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:22:12 +0000 http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/when-journalists-go-to-jail/#comment-10738 It will get harder, it is getting harder - even in Vietnam where many people already self-censor. I'll be interested to return to this topic in one year after the some of the main ISPs install a network based web filtering device that aims to block "pornographic, violent or other objectionable content by blocking access to sites both inside and outside Vietnam at the level of the ISP network with a blocking rate of 99 per cent." http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1394017/vietnam_to_try_new_internet_blocking_service/ It will get harder, it is getting harder - even in Vietnam where many people already self-censor. I’ll be interested to return to this topic in one year after the some of the main ISPs install a network based web filtering device that aims to block

“pornographic, violent or other objectionable content by blocking access to sites both inside and outside Vietnam at the level of the ISP network with a blocking rate of 99 per cent.”

http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1394017/vietnam_to_try_new_internet_blocking_service/

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