Category Archives: Internet Freedom

Children of the internet: Free speech in the digital age

This article is the part of the Index on Censorship Young Writers / Artists Programme

By Nishith Hegde / 2 June, 2014

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China escalates attack on Google

By New York Times | 3 Jun, 2014, 01.51PM ISTPost a Comment
In addition to Google’s search engines being blocked, the company’s products, including Gmail, Calendar and Translate, have been affected.

In addition to Google’s search engines being blocked, the company’s products, including Gmail, Calendar and Translate, have been affected. Continue reading

With a Constant Stream of Media Directives, China’s Leaders Micromanage the News

May 30, 2014

written by
Sarah CookSenior Research Analyst for East Asia
written by
Natalie SykesResearcher, Freedom of the Press

 

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What Might Twitter In China Look Like?

In brief comments at Code Conference on Wednesday, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said that while the company has no immediate plans for entry into China, Continue reading

China Announces New Clampdown on Messaging Apps

2014-05-28 
A device displays the logo of instant messaging platform WeChat, March 12, 2014.
AFP

China has launched a month-long crackdown on hugely popular instant messaging apps in a bid to purge them of “illegal and harmful information” and to fend off “hostile forces,” official media reported on Wednesday. Continue reading

Baidu Doesn’t Censor Searches for “Tiananmen Massacre” On Its Japan Search Engine

Thursday, May 29, 2014
Below, the left-hand screenshot was taken on May 28, 2014, and shows that when a user in Japan searches for “Tiananmen Massacre” (天安门大屠杀) in Chinese on Baidu.com, Baidu informs them that “In accordance with relevant laws, Continue reading

Tienchi Martin-Liao: Internet Surveillance, a Visible and Invisible Hand

August 14, 2013

Government intervention, evolving technology, and the quest to end terrorism

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Wu Hongfei
Chinese singer and writer Wu Hongfei. Photo courtesy of Tienchi Martin-Liao.

This summer, a wheelchair-bound paraplegic man named Ji Zhongxing Continue reading