Years of Poems and Spirits

Taubman: internet policy and legitamization strategy.
China Cuba case studies (Boas):
Chat room administrators hire censors, or “Big Mamas,” to screen and quickly remove offensive material from bulletin boards.
Recent crackdowns on Internet cafés have encouraged their owners to keep a close eye on web
surfers, and they have also prompted café users to patrol their own activities.
Liu Yuan, “Café Crackdown: China Enlists the Public in Its Ongoing Campaign to Censor the Internet,” Asiaweek, February 2, 2001.
Dissidents like Lin Hai and Huang Qi have been arrested and tried for their Internet use, and their fates have been well-publicized in Chinese media, undoubtedly serving as a message to others.

U.S. schools are banning MySpace.com.., the teens were told to dismantle their Myspace.com accounts or similar sites with personal profiles and blogs
(http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051024/NEWS01/510240324)

As Yi Feng has argued, the likelihood of short-term political upheaval is lower in authoritarian regimes that
are perceived to have increased living standards and promoted economic growth.

China’s censorship standard (G.E. Gorman, China-bashing in the internet censorship wars, PDF locker)

Singapore: censorship desired, popular (Dr. Peng Hwa Ang and Ms. Berlinda Nadarajan, PDF locker)

Some history of regulations (STATE CONTROL OF THE INTERNET IN CHINA, reg_hist. PDF locker)

This study has found that censorship of the Internet is commonplace in most regions of the world. In some countries, for example in China and Burma, the level of control is such that the Internet has relatively little value as a medium for organised free speech, and its used could well create additional dangers at a personal level for activists.
Also, page 54-55
(Privacy International, Censorship, PDF locker)