Peijin Chen

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• Posted Who framed Google Rabbit? to Shanghaiist
  Some enterprising cyber-Sherlock has used Google's Insight for Search service to discover that certain pornographic search terms experienced suspicious growth in the days prior to the the anti-Google CCTV reports. The first picture shows what the author found using Google Insights for Search, which can can be used to graph and then analyze search trends from around the world. The search term under questions is "improper relations between mother and son." The gist of...
• Posted The Green Dam that broke the GFW's back: grassroots backlash to Shanghaiist
  Well, one can always hope. The debate is heating up. Yesterday, a Beijing based lawyer Li Fangping sent a request to the Ministry of Industry and Information asking for information about the Green Dam Youth Escort software: the reasons for its development, the legal basis for the order to have Green Dam and Youth Escort pre-installed in PCs, etc. As far as we know there is no Freedom of Information Act in China, or...
• Posted Be careful where you get your boob job done to Shanghaiist
  We just read an article about a woman who sued a boob job clinic after they tried over fifty fruitless times in the last year to enlarge her breasts. On the basis of this deplorable record, Ms. Zhao decide to sue the clinic, and she won. The general rule in Chinese law is 1+1 compensation — meaning that if you spend 4800RMB, as Ms. Zhao did, that you get 9600 RMB as compensation. For...
• Posted I'm a Mac, you're a Green Dam infested PC* to Shanghaiist
  Resistance is futile: they've already started installing Green Dam internet filtering software in schools. The censorware is, according to its proponents, help in the eternal battle against smut and other morally damaging materials. Although we have our doubts as to how many Chinese students really have the time to scour smut at school, we are old enough Some real Wolverines — at the University of Michigan — have just done a brief study of...
• Posted Unlike.net: custom digital guides for Shanghai to Shanghaiist
  We just came across the website for Unlike.net, which offers customized digital city guides to a number of global cities, such as Amsterdam, Berlin, and our very own Shanghai. We haven't tried it, but here's the concept: you choose the general domain of interest, e.g. nightlife, arts, etc or else the type of mode you want, e.g. "Weekend Escape." These guides are supposedly written by local connoisseurs. You pick the one that you want...