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China’s ‘Internet police’ open a window on Web censorship

June 1, 2015 admin beijing, campaign, facebook, homework, internet, known-as-finra, northwestern, passengers, public, shows-icons, street, subject, weibo, well-as-google

The branch of China's police in charge of censoring “illegal and harmful” online information will make its efforts more visible to the public from Monday with the launch of their own social media accounts, the Ministry of Public Security said. The Chinese government aggressively censors the Internet, blocking many sites it deems could challenge the rule of the Communist Party or threaten stability, including popular Western sites like YouTube, Instagram and Facebook, as well as Google Inc's main search engine and Gmail service

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Boehner urges U.S. Senate to pass surveillance reform bill

May 31, 2015 creative america, boehner, critical, homework, internet, known-as-finra, pass-the-usa, passengers, program-expire, representatives, senate, shows-icons, street, subject, well-as-google

The Republican leader of the U.S. House of Representatives urged the U.S

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Charter Communications nears $55 billion deal for Time Warner Cable – sources

May 25, 2015 admin biggest, boehner, comcast, critical, diego, dropped-its, homework, people-familiar, said-on-monday, shows-icons, third-largest, warner, well-as-google

Time Warner Cable Inc is nearing an agreement to be acquired by smaller peer Charter Communications Inc for about $55 billion, combining the second and third largest U.S. cable operators, people familiar with the matter said on Monday. A deal would create a major rival to Comcast Corp, the biggest operator in the U.S.

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Beijing official says Chinese have no need for blocked websites

March 25, 2015 creative china, chinese, country, facebook, internet, official-said, rein-on-its, shows-icons, social-media, society-or-even, then-foreigners, twitter, winter, winter-olympics

By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) – If Beijing is successful in its bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics then foreigners who attend will get uncensored Internet access, but this isn't an issue for Chinese who “don't like” sites like Facebook and Twitter, an official said on Wednesday.

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Moneysupermarket founder cancels 6.4 percent stake sale

March 25, 2015 publisher 268-5-pence, internet, million-shares, shows-icons, simon-nixon, social-media, source-had, twitter

The founder of British price comparison company Moneysupermarket.com, Simon Nixon, on Wednesday scrapped a plan to sell a stake of up to 6.4 percent in the company, less than a day after announcing it. A source had earlier told Reuters that Nixon was reducing offer to 4 percent of the company’s share capital — 22 million shares — from the 35 million shares previously targeted, with a price range of between 268 pence and 270 pence. News of the cancellation sent shares in Moneysupermarket down 6.3 percent to 268.5 pence by 0850 GMT.