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How Chinese officials ‘like’ banned Facebook

By Felicia Sonmez | AFP News – Sun, May 18, 2014

China’s Communist authorities ban their own people from accessing major global social media sites including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and more. But when it comes to self-promotion they are increasingly keen users themselvesView Photo

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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