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China internet: Ren Zhiqiang’s account blocked after Xi criticism

Posted on 02/28/2016 by | China internet: Ren Zhiqiang’s account blocked after Xi criticism已关闭评论
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Ren Zhiqiang has more than 30m followers

China has shut down the microblogging accounts of outspoken former property tycoon Ren Zhiqiang after he criticised President Ren Zhiqiang. Continue reading →

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China set to ban all foreign media from publishing online

Posted on 02/21/2016 by | China set to ban all foreign media from publishing online已关闭评论

Government directive: ‘Sino-foreign joint ventures, Sino-foreign cooperative ventures and foreign business units shall not engage in online publishing services’

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Only wholly Chinese owned companies will be able to publish online – subject to strict self-censorship Rex Features

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Book on Chinese president pulled as fears grow for missing Hong Kong publishers

Posted on 01/16/2016 by | Book on Chinese president pulled as fears grow for missing Hong Kong publishers已关闭评论

US-based writer Yu Jie says publication of Xi Jinping’s Nightmare was halted as the industry ‘wants to stay out of trouble’ after five booksellers have vanished

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Chinese dissident author Yu Jie. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images

The author of a book which criticises Chinese president Xi Jinping has said its publication has been suspended in Hong Kong, because its publisher was fearful of the “huge consequences” of its release, following the mysterious disappearance of five of the city’s publishers in recent months. Continue reading →

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Mark Wilson: China passes law requiring tech firms to hand over encryption keys

Posted on 12/27/2015 by | Mark Wilson: China passes law requiring tech firms to hand over encryption keys已关闭评论

china_encryptionApple may have said that it opposes the idea of weakening encryption and providing governments with backdoors into products, but things are rather different in China. The Chinese parliament has just passed a law that requires technology companies to comply with government requests for information, including handing over encryption keys. Continue reading →

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China’s President Calls For More Borders, State Control in Cyberspace

Posted on 12/16/2015 by | China’s President Calls For More Borders, State Control in Cyberspace已关闭评论
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Xi Jinping gives a speech at the Internet conference in Wuzhen, China, Dec. 16, 2015. AFP

Chinese Internet users on Wednesday hit out at a “global” Internet conference hosted by the ruling Chinese Communist Party, as their president Xi Jinping called for more control by governments over cyberspace. Continue reading →

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China Seeks to Export Censorship to Overseas-Registered Domain Names: Report

Posted on 11/09/2015 by | China Seeks to Export Censorship to Overseas-Registered Domain Names: Report已关闭评论

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China has compiled a “blacklist” of keywords banned by its complex Internet censorship regime, known as the Great Firewall, and is now seeking to apply them well beyond its physical borders via a domain-name registry based in the United States, according to recent reports.

U.S.-based domain-name registry XYZ.com recently made a deal with the Chinese government requiring it to enforce Beijing’s censorship globally based on a list of Continue reading →

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Great Firewall rising: How China wages its war on the Internet

Posted on 10/30/2015 by | Great Firewall rising: How China wages its war on the Internet已关闭评论

 

By James Griffiths, CNN

Updated 0129 GMT (0929 HKT) October 26, 2015

It was a visit he had been dreading for almost six months, since he began working on a tool to help Chinese Internet users get around the vast censorship apparatus known as the Great Firewall.

Crowded inside his apartment in a northern Chinese city, Continue reading →

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China to ‘Strike Hard’ Against Illegal Overseas TV, Internet Content

Posted on 10/29/2015 by | China to ‘Strike Hard’ Against Illegal Overseas TV, Internet Content已关闭评论

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Netizens surf the web at an Internet cafe in China’s Zhejiang province in a file photo.
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China’s media regulator on Tuesday issued new rules pledging to crack down on its citizens’ reception of overseas television and Internet content, to protect “national security.”

In a recent directive, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT) ordered provincial and regional government, police departments, and judicial agencies at all levels to “strike hard” at any form of illegal television or Internet content and equipment.

It listed 81 content providers offering Continue reading →

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