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Prominent Tibetan Activist Tsering Woeser Claims Facebook Censorship

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Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser. (Courtesy of Tsering Woeser)

Tsering Woeser, a well-known Tibetan writer and activist, Continue reading

Young IT Professional Detained for Developing Software to Scale GFW of China

By China Change, published: November 12, 2014

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XU DONG’S TWITTER PAGE.

A 31-year-old Chinese IT professional named Xu Dong (许东, @onionhacker) was detained on November 4th by Beijing police for “picking quarrels and creating disturbances,” according to tweeted posted by Chinese activist Wu Gan (吴淦), better known by his online ID “Butcher” (屠夫). Continue reading

Stricter and subtler: how China has ramped up instant messaging censorship

The chat application LINE has strengthened its censorship methods in mainland China by targeting phrases and word combinations.

By Pao- Pao / 23 October, 2014

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China blocks BBC website as Hong Kong tensions rise

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Corporation condemns ‘deliberate censorship’ as Chinese official claims foreign media are not reporting protests objectively

China has blocked the BBC website as protests in Hong Kong continue

China has blocked the BBC website as protests in Hong Kong continue. Photograph: Alexander Koerner/Getty Images Continue reading

How I Dealt With China’s Book Censors-ChinaFile One Western author shares his struggle to keep a text true to history.

BY JOSEPH W. ESHERICK  OCTOBER 15, 2014

It was a hot afternoon in June in the East China city of Jinan. I was returning to my hotel after an afternoon coffee, thinking of the conference I had come to attend and trying to escape the heat on the shady side of the street. My cell phone rang, Continue reading

On Dealing with Chinese Censors

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It was a hot afternoon in June in the East China city of Jinan. Continue reading

Parsing the New Internet Rules of China’s Supreme Court

October 11, 2014

Yesterday, the Supreme People’s Court issued a document with the – predictably convoluted – title “Supreme People’s Court Regulations concerning Some Questions of Applicable Law in Handing Civil Dispute Cases involving the Use of Information Networks to Harm Personal Rights and Interests”. !–more–>This document provides Continue reading

Hong Kong Protests Lead to Censorship on WeChat

8:14 pm HKT Oct 3, 2014 LAW & POLITICS

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A pro-democracy protester is escorted by the police after Continue reading