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Internet Freedom - Pakistan, China, Turkey, Iran, Syria, US, and Iceland - Let's Communicate!

Recently on a US-Syrian trade mission to open up those markets to US companies and to insure that Syria does not interfere with the Iranian economic sanctions the US has made headway on Syrian Internet Censorship, but due to the Islamic nature of the culture there are things they refuse to allow in their nation. We are still trying to persuade them to open things up more.

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal might be interesting to read; "Pakistan, Turkey Expand Internet Restrictions," by Tom Wright, Marc Champion, and Amir Efrati explains the blocking of Internet sites, ISPs, and how Google removes content from China, India, and other nations, and how YouTube restricts its showing in Thailand when it might insult the King! This is must read article for those studying censorship of the Internet.

Still, I must tell you I've had in-depth dialogues with academics and media folks in Pakistan, and they claim their reasons for blocking various Internet sites is due to pornography, child predators, financial fraud, and anti-Pakistani content.

China wants to prevent Internet addiction, and even has Internet Addiction Boot Camps, one was actually overrun by its prisoners months ago. We also know about the censorship issue in China with Google, and they don't want embarrassing information about Tiananmen Square or other anti-government content. In fact, much of China's ability to control their masses, yes 1.3 Billion People they attribute to controlling the minds of the people through the mass media, and the Internet challenges such things.

Iceland recently voted to become a free-zone for Internet journalists, offering to protect them, after WikiLeaks Founder promised to release thousands of videos of US Military footage, and you can bet that they will only post items that put the US in a bad light, not the sort of thing that is good for America. Such an action and bias slant online would be akin to Al Jazeera's anti-Israel slant, and no one needs that. Maybe it is time we all looked at the realities of Internet Censorship and put things into perspective, please think on this.

Additional Ref.

Wall Street Journal; "WikiLeaks and National Security" Information Age column by L. Gordon Crovitz.

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Baidu - Your Passport to the World's Most Populated Country

China alone can boast of hundreds of millions of internet users. And with this prevailing search engine commonly used by the people to search for mp3s or videos, the market for Baidu is really huge. You might take 5.5 percent of the global internet population very lightly but when it is translated into number of users, that 5.5% is 372,000,000 on the estimate. That means the Chinese are not the only ones who use the search engine. Well in fact Baidu has franchises in Japan (Baidu.jp) so it really is not limited to China. But Chinese SEO will still work perfectly fine here. It may even be more beneficial that Baidu reaches other parts of the world because it gives more exposure to the mother website which is Baidu China which can be reached at baidu.com.

And besides, who could ever resist the promise of good revenue? If doing business with US is satisfying in terms of the ROI, then China will surely be just like that-or maybe even better. Just as the population begins to become more and more internet savvy, there are also more growth opportunities for the Chinese internet market.

Now, you might be really decided on penetrating China now. But the barriers with the country are not only in terms of language (there is an apparent difficulty of bridging knowledge of Chinese characters with the English language). It is also in terms of what kind of search engine or searches will be permitted by the authorities to operate in their country. As we all know, Google had quite a big fight with the Chinese government after it denounced plans of hacking the software of the search engine giant. China SEO can be quite manipulating at times and it is expected since China has a communist government.

More than anything else, Baidu.com remains a profitable market for all people interested din making business out of the internet. Might as well divert your efforts into this site when engaging in SEO and affiliate marketing because it will surely give you the compensation you are looking for in a home-based job. The underdeveloped affiliate marketing arena of Baidu.com is raw playing field that is yet to be utilized. Chinese SEO can drastically improve the current trend of home based jobs in China and it is expected to spur a new wave of employment because of the transition from manual to virtual employment.

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