China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television holds political study meeting, Nov. 21, 2016. Public Domain.
China’s powerful media regulator has banned social media platforms like WeChat, and the Twitter-like Weibo services run by Sina and Tencent, from disseminating user-generated audio and video, in a move that appears to be aimed at stifling citizen reporting in a country where all news is controlled by the ruling Chinese Communist Party. Continue reading
China Bans User-Made, ‘Unlicensed’ Video, Audio From Social Media已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom
Tagged Ban, censorship, Social Media, WeChat, Weibo
More than 100,000 people gathered in Hong Kong on Saturday to mark the 27th anniversary of a military massacre that put a bloody end to the 1989 democracy movement on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, although cracks were beginning to appear in the city’s pro-democracy camp. Continue reading
Tens of Thousands Gather in Hong Kong to Mark Tiananmen Massacre已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Ban, Hong Kong, Tiananmen Massacre
Actor Sun Haiying’s Weibo shortly before it was shuttered.
December 14, 2014, Red Flag Manuscript published an article by Li Yanyan (李艳艳 – whom it identified as “with the Humanities division of Beijing Union University” – 北京联合大学) entitled “Some Tendencies That Must Be Addressed In Order to Safeguard Weibo’s Ideological Security” ( 维护微博意识形态安全必须纠正的几种倾向). Some excerpts: Continue reading
A Chronology of Actor Sun Haiying’s Ban From China’s Social Media已关闭评论
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Tagged Ban, censorship, Sun Haiying, Weibo
Government directive: ‘Sino-foreign joint ventures, Sino-foreign cooperative ventures and foreign business units shall not engage in online publishing services’
Only wholly Chinese owned companies will be able to publish online – subject to strict self-censorship Rex Features
China set to ban all foreign media from publishing online已关闭评论
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Tagged Ban, censorship, Media, online, publication
7:36 pm HKT Oct 13, 2014
A man reads a book while practicing tai chi. Rumors that a ban on some authors has boosted their sales in China. Reuters
Having a book Continue reading
By Jose Pagliery @Jose_Pagliery May 20, 2014: 12:03 PM ET
Two years after Microsoft executives unveiled Windows 8 in China, the government is banning the operating system on state computers.
China has blacklisted Microsoft Windows 8, Continue reading
China bans Windows 8 from government computers已关闭评论
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Tagged Ban, China, Government Computers, Windows 8
