An internet with Chinese characteristics
An internet with Chinese characteristicsOnline business in China is growing even faster than the offline sort. Local tastes and needs, as well as the state, are endowing it with distinctive features WHEN Huang Bing graduated from university in 2005, he promised himself he would make his first 1m yuan (about $155,000) within three years. It took him a bit longer, but no matter: if his business, a c
Reaching for the kill switch
Reaching for the kill switchThe costs and practicalities of switching off the internet in Egypt and elsewhere THE timing was dire. On January 25th American senators reintroduced a bill granting the president emergency powers to shut down parts of the nation's internet as a defence against cyber-attack. Three days later Egypt's embattled autocrats took their country offline. The American bill's bac
Caught in the net
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom. By Evgeny Morozov. PublicAffairs; 408 pages; $27.95. Published in Britain by Allen Lane as “The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World”; £14.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk WHEN thousands of young Iranians took to the streets in June 2009 to protest against the apparent rigging of the presidential election, much of the coverage in the
Love at first byte
Love at first byteOnline-dating sites have made it easier for people to click with one another. But they still leave something to be desired FOR the lovelorn, the new year can be an unhappy time, as they cast envious glances in the direction of lovey-dovey couples at the season's parties. For online-dating agencies, it is a golden opportunity, as people who have spent the holidays ruminating over
A cyber-house divided
A cyber-house dividedOnline as much as in the real world, people bunch together in mutually suspicious groups—and in both realms, peacemaking is an uphill struggle IN 2007 Danah Boyd heard a white American teenager describe MySpace, the social network, as “like ghetto or whatever”. At the time, Facebook was stealing members from MySpace, but most people thought it was just a fad: teenagers tired o
The web's new walls
WHEN George W. Bush referred to “rumours on the, uh, internets” during the 2004 presidential campaign, he was derided for his cluelessness—and “internets” became a shorthand for a lack of understanding of the online world. But what looked like ignorance then looks like prescience now. As divergent forces tug at the internet, it is in danger of losing its universality and splintering into separate
Lives of others
Lives of othersFacebook and Google face a backlash, from users and regulators alike, over the way they have handled sensitive data JENNIFER STODDART, Canada's privacy commissioner, is furious with Facebook. In August 2009 the social-networking site struck a deal, agreeing to change its policies within a year to comply with the country's privacy law. Now, says Ms Stoddart, the company appears to be
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Handling the cornucopiaThe best way to deal with all that information is to use machines. But they need watching IN 2002 America's Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, best known for developing the internet four decades ago, embarked on a futuristic initiative called Augmented Cognition, or “AugCog”. Commander Dylan Schmorrow, a cognitive scientist with the navy, devised a crown of sensors t
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ICANN be independent
FORTY years ago this month American academics sent the first message over the ARPANET, a military network that was the precursor of today's internet. A legacy of those efforts is that the American government continues to control the internet's underlying technology—notably the system of allocating addresses. This is about to change, albeit slightly. For the past decade America has delegated some o
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