Category Archives: Internet Freedom

HELEN GAO:China Sharpens Its Censorship Blade

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Credit Jing Wei

BEIJING — In early November, when Beijing played host to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, city officials closed hundreds of factories and forced millions of vehicles Continue reading

How extensive is the official crackdown on Chinese internet access?

January 31, 2015 at 4:31 PM EST

Jonathan Landreth, managing editor of ChinaFile, the Asia Society’s online magazine, joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the Chinese crackdown on the country’s access to the Internet this week. Continue reading

China shuts 50 websites and social media accounts

Tue Jan 13, 2015 8:41am EST

BEIJING (Reuters) – China has closed 50 websites and social media accounts for violations ranging from pornography to “publishing political news without a permit”, Beijing’s cyberspace watchdog said on Tuesday.

The government is pursuing a crackdown on unwanted material online. Critics say the increasing restrictions further limit free speech in the one-party Communist state. Continue reading

Tsering Woeser:Faith in Addition to Face – To Facebook, Inc.

published: December 30, 2014

On December 26, 2014, I reposted on my Facebook page a video of Tibetan Buddhist monk Kalsang Yeshe’s self-immolation that occurred on December 23 [in Tawu county, Continue reading

Who’s the true enemy of internet freedom – China, Russia, or the US?

Google BeijingEvgeny Morozov

Beijing and Moscow are rightly chastised for restricting their citizens’ online access – but it’s the US that is now even more aggressive in asserting its digital sovereignty
Beijing has restricted Gmail’s reach in China. Photograph: Sinopix/Rex Features

Saturday 3 January 2015 19.04 EST

Recent reports that China has imposed further restrictions Continue reading

China seeks to export its vision of the Internet

NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE

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Last updated Thursday, Jan. 01 2015, 5:59 PM EST

China, the country that perfected breaking the Internet, Continue reading

Amid Scrutiny, Facebook Suspends Chinese Dissident’s Account

4:35 pm HKT Dec 31, 2014

 

OB-TN551_facema_G_20120626181721Just as scrutiny of how Facebook treats China-related content is mounting, the social-networking service on Wednesday suspended the account of a prominent Chinese dissident writer, citing its policy against nudity.

Liao Yiwu, who lives in Berlin, said Wednesday Continue reading

Woeser Accuses Facebook of Censoring Posts

Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser has accused Facebook of censoring a post which included images of the recent self-immolation of Kalsang Yeshi, a 37-year-old monk who set himself Continue reading