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11月22日 新唐人進入纽约时代华纳589频道
新唐人進入纽约时代华纳589频道
【新唐人2009年11月21日讯】观众朋友们,新唐人电视台在大纽约地区的播出,于美东时间11月21日(星期六)中午12点1分起進入时代华纳(Time Warner)有线电视589频道。全天候24小时播出,不需要另外收费。这是时代华纳大紐约地区唯一的 Digital Basic 24小时中文频道! 11月21日 Boycott Microsoft Bing November 20, 2009, 2:41 pm
Boycott Microsoft BingBy NICHOLAS KRISTOFCritics have accused President Obama of kowtowing to Chinese leaders, by failing to meet dissidents, toning down his criticisms and delaying a meeting with the Dalai Lama. On balance, I think that criticism is premature: Confrontation doesn’t help with China and can hurt, and so engagement becomes a fine line to navigate. The Obama visit wasn’t a ringing success, but neither was it a craven embarrassment. For the latest craven kowtowing, we can look somewhere else: Microsoft and its new search engine, Bing. Western corporations have often behaved embarrassingly in China, sacrificing any principles to ingratiate themselves with the Communist Party authorities. Yahoo was the worst, handing over information about several email account holders so that they could be arrested – and then dissembling and defending its monstrous conduct. Now Microsoft is sacrificing the integrity of Bing searches so as to cozy up to State Security in Beijing. In effect, it has chosen become part of the Communist Party’s propaganda apparatus. If you search a term on Bing that is politically sensitive in China, in English the results are legitimate. Search “Tiananmen” and you’ll find out about the army firing on pro-democracy protesters in 1989. Search Dalai Lama, Falun Gong and you also get credible results. Conduct the search in complex Chinese characters (the kind used in Taiwan and Hong Kong) and on the whole you still get authentic results. But conduct the search with the simplified characters used in mainland China, then you get sanitized pro-Communist results. This is especially true of image searches. Magic! No Tiananmen Square massacre. The Dalai Lama becomes an oppressor. Falun Gong believers are villains, not victims. (This is an issue with Google as well, but to a much lesser extent. Google censors results on its search engine used within China, google.cn, but offers mostly uncensored results using simplified Chinese characters on its worldwide browser, google.com. However, some searches on google.com, such as images for Falun Gong, are also censored.) When I originally wrote about this issue back in June, Microsoft protested. “From what you described, that’s not the way Bing is supposed to work,” wrote Kevin Kutz, a company spokesman. He said that Chinese speakers at Microsoft could not replicate my results and did not detect this kind of skewed result. I sent screen shots, and then Microsoft acknowledged the issue but said that it was simply a temporary mistake. “It’s a bug,” Kutz told me. Later, he added: “What’s important is it’s getting fixed.” Soon, he said, Bing searches would be the same for Tiananmen and other sensitive subjects, whatever the language. Six months later, the censorship continues. And now all of a sudden, it’s company policy. Huh? How come that wasn’t the explanation in June? And if that’s the case, then why is there a marked difference between text and image searches? And in any case, why should Bing use an algorithm that results in propaganda and skews results far more than Google? Why isn’t Wikipedia higher on the results with simplified characters? Of course, it’s possible that Microsoft executives in Redmond, since they can’t read Chinese, are being misled by those executives focused on the China business. Yet my hunch is that Microsoft simply has decided at a top level that it will compromise what principles it must to ingratiate itself with China. This presumably isn’t at China’s specific request: it’s unlikely that Chinese authorities would be so detailed in their demands, and it doesn’t negotiate over minor points like this. But China has made it clear that it dislikes search engines that lead to results it considers seditious, and it can block them. Microsoft apparently doesn’t want to pursue the Google solution of having separate sites – one that produces generally legitimate results (google.com) and another within China that blatantly censors (google.cn). Instead, Bing figured it would have one site and just censor all the results in simplified Chinese characters. It then compounded the problem by dissembling and disguising its policy. That’s craven and embarrassing, it betrays the integrity of Microsoft searches, and for me it’s a reason to boycott Bing. UPDATE: Microsoft has posted a measured response: http://bit.ly/6CD49e . It notes that some Bing searches are not skewed even in simplified characters but acknowledges that image searches in particular are sanitized. It says that this is a bug that was identified today and that it will soon be fixed. That’s basically what I was told last June, and I’m very skeptical. http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/boycott-microsoft-bing/
Japanese Woman Calls on Obama to Rescue Sister
In 2001 Associate Professor Wu Xiaohua from Anhui Province was kidnapped from her home. She was illegally detained at the Anhui Province Female Labor Camp, and then taken to a mental hospital against her will. 欧卫事件-新唐人将在法国继续上诉 [French Court Dismisses Case Against Major Satellite Company]
欧卫事件-新唐人将在法国继续上诉 [French Court Dismisses Case Against Major Satellite Company]
【新唐人2009年11月18日讯】11月17日下午四点,法国巴黎商业法庭决定不派独立专家调查欧卫切断新唐人对华信号事件,理由是新唐人与欧卫公司之间无直接合同关系。新唐人律师及记者无疆界组织对此提出质疑。请看报导。 French Court Dismisses Case Against Major Satellite CompanyIndependent Chinese-language Network Will AppealBy Renjing & Zhou Yifei
New Tang Dynasty Television Created: Nov 19, 2009 Last Updated: Nov 19, 2009
On Nov. 17 the Paris Commerce Court dismissed the case against France-based satellite company Eutelsat filed by their client, New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV), an independent Chinese-language television network which broadcasts over mainland China.
NTDTV had contended that it was removed from Eutelsat’s satellite because of pressure from Chinese authorities who objected to some of its coverage. The court reached the decision on the grounds that there is no direct contractual relationship between NTDTV and Eutelsat. NTDTV says they will appeal the decision. In 2005 Eutelsat refused to renew its contract with NTDTV, but later capitulated due to international pressure over concerns for freedom of the press. In June 2008 Eutelsat again terminated NTDTV’s broadcast into China, this time explaining that it was due to technical difficulties. NTDTV filed a lawsuit against Eutelsat in July 2008. Vincent Brossel Asia Director of Reporters Without Borders, found the verdict surprising and disappointing. (NTD News) Breham also said that there are no legal grounds for the judge’s decision. According to Article 145 of the French Code of Civil Procedure, “If there is a legitimate reason to preserve or to establish, before any legal process, the evidence of the facts upon which the resolution of the dispute depends, legally permissible preparatory inquiries may be ordered at the request of any interested party, by way of a petition or by way of a summary procedure.” Vincent Brossel, Reporters Without Borders Asia director, found the result surprising and disappointing. He thinks it was a mistake for the judge to state that there is no direct relationship between NTDTV and Eutelsat since NTDTV was broadcasted via Eutelsat. Vincent Desmadryl, France 3 TV, said the possible implications for freedom of the press were "very disturbing." (NTD News) France 3 TV reporter Michel Vial said “Cutting off the signals and making people lose their right to be informed—I am very shocked.” Vincent Desmadryl, also of France 3 TV, stated, “If NTDTV’s signal was cut off for political and economic reasons, and if we truly do not have freedom of the press—this is very disturbing!” A staff member from Eutelsat was asked to comment: “I cannot speak with you. This is where I work, and I have no other choice,” he said. NTDTV says they will continue to file appeals until the truth is revealed. Read the original Chinese article. |
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