Global Online Freedom Act of 2007

This law

To promote freedom of expression on the Internet, to protect United States businesses from coercion to participate in repression by authoritarian foreign governments, and for other purposes.

never became Law

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-275

Here is some stuff I have been looking at today

This is the site of veteran libertarian campaigner Long Hair http://www.longhair.hk/

Flatter world and thicker walls? Blogs, censorship and civic discourse in China, a paper by Rebecca MacKinnon, available at

Flatter world and thicker walls? Blogs, censorship and civic discourse in China:
http://books.google.com/books?id=I-95XzS7l8QC&lpg=PP1&dq=china%20internet&pg=PT4#v=onepage&q=&f=false


http://bbs1.people.com.cn/ The forum of the People's Daily

China's Communist Party: atrophy and adaptation By David L. Shambaugh, argues that the Propaganda system is both atrophying and adapting to the pressures of globalization, marketization, pleuralization and new technology: http://books.google.com/books?id=IOW6msgYWzwC&lpg=PR10&ots=PruY1JFwtB&dq=censorship%20shambaugh&lr=&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=false

My blog: http://blog.sina.com.cn/5tm74, when will they censor it?
http://www.rsf.org/List-of-the-13-Internet-enemies.html

http://www.duihua.org/

http://www.irrepressible.info/addcontent, an Amnesty International project to subvert censorship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech
http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=288 freedom of the press reports up to 2006 only

He Qinlian www.hrichina.org/public/PDFs/CRF.../CRF-2006-2_MediaControlChina.pdf

There are some new books on censorship in China on amazon but I can't find anything about them or the authors.

EG More book information
Title Internet Censorship in the People's Republic of China: Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, Internet Police, Internet Forum, Golden Shield Project, Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China
Editors Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
Publisher Alphascript Publishing, 2009
ISBN 613004531X, 9786130045319
Length 96 pages