Regulating Japanese Internets

The Japanese government thinks they can regulate content on the internet--yet can't keep cigarettes and porn away from children at the local 7/11.

The Japanese government made major moves [recently] toward legislating extensive regulation over online communication and information exchange within its national borders. In a series of little-publicized meetings attracting minimal mainstream coverage, two distinct government ministries, that of Internal Affairs and Communications (Somusho) and that of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Monbukagakusho), pushed ahead with regulation in three major areas of online communication: web content, mobile phone access, and file sharing...

Regulating the Japanese cyberspace continues here.

BoingBoing let's us know how well China's storied and expensive Great Firewall holding up.

PBS Frontline discussion on censorship and web filtering/blocking in China.