MySpace bowed to critics yesterday and stepped up earlier minor-protection efforts. The social site announced new restrictions that take effect on its site next week. These restrictions (collectively called "no such thing as a free speech") sound confusing, but they're really quite simple:

Another bad day for Chinese dissidents as Yahoo gets accused of ratting out a third writer to the government, Skype admits to censoring Chinese conversations, and the NYT Magazine running a 10-page piece on Google's China trouble.

Metroblogging cofounder Sean Bonner outs a filtering director at Secure Computing as an adult baby fetishist. Tomo Foote-Lennox, who wrote to Boing Boing blogger Xeni Jardin that he wants to "protect the kids" from the evil nakedness on the Internets, is either a diaper-loving fetishist socialite or the victim of the worst naming coincidence ever.

January 24: Google launches Google.cn, a Chinese search page with censored results. Every tech media outlet raises a stink.

Are your image searches clogged with symbols of oppression? The Google Blogoscoped provides a handy Google Image tip.

Silicon Valley Watcher's Tom Foremski has a brilliant solution to Google's censored China search: censor other sites too.