Credit Jing Wei
BEIJING — In early November, when Beijing played host to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, city officials closed hundreds of factories and forced millions of vehicles Continue reading
Credit Jing Wei
BEIJING — In early November, when Beijing played host to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, city officials closed hundreds of factories and forced millions of vehicles Continue reading
HELEN GAO:China Sharpens Its Censorship Blade已关闭评论
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January 31, 2015 at 4:31 PM EST
Jonathan Landreth, managing editor of ChinaFile, the Asia Society’s online magazine, joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the Chinese crackdown on the country’s access to the Internet this week. Continue reading
How extensive is the official crackdown on Chinese internet access?已关闭评论
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Published: January 20, 2015
PU ZHIQIANG (浦志强). PHOTO FROM ONLINE.
On January 11, the Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang (浦志强) spent his fiftieth birthday behind bars. No one knows what was going through the mind of this famous and very vocal lawyer Continue reading
Chang Ping:The Looming Shadow of the Case against Pu Zhiqiang已关闭评论
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Tagged Internet Freedom, June 4th, Pu Zhiqiang
Tue Jan 13, 2015 8:41am EST
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has closed 50 websites and social media accounts for violations ranging from pornography to “publishing political news without a permit”, Beijing’s cyberspace watchdog said on Tuesday.
The government is pursuing a crackdown on unwanted material online. Critics say the increasing restrictions further limit free speech in the one-party Communist state. Continue reading
China shuts 50 websites and social media accounts已关闭评论
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NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
Last updated Thursday, Jan. 01 2015, 5:59 PM EST
China, the country that perfected breaking the Internet, Continue reading
China seeks to export its vision of the Internet已关闭评论
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May 2013 – May 2014
President and CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping framed the internet as a battlefield for ideological control and appointed himself the head of a top-level internet security committee (see Introduction).
The State Internet Information Office consolidated content restrictions with a harsh crackdown on rumors under newly appointed “Internet Tsar” Lu Wei (see Limits on Content and Violations of User Rights).
A September 2013 judicial interpretation criminalized a range of online content viewed more than 5,000 times or shared by 500 internet users (see Violations of User Rights).
High-profile businessmen were among hundreds detained or interrogated for supposedly abusing their online influence as controls on microblogs tightened (see Violations of User Rights).
Legal activist Xu Zhiyong was jailed for four years for disturbing order and “public spaces on the internet” in April 2014 (see Violations of User Rights).
Telecommunications were shut off in a restive area of Xinjiang; and Uighur academic Ilham Tohti was charged with antistate activity via his website (see Obstacles to Access and Violations of User Rights).
A court in Hainan jailed an internet police officer for accepting bribes to issue takedown notices via instant message to web platforms in his jurisdiction (see Limits on Content).
China:Freedom on the Net 2014 by Freedom House已关闭评论
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By China Change, published: November 12, 2014
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
Young IT Professional Detained for Developing Software to Scale GFW of China已关闭评论
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Tagged censorship, China, Democracy, Hong Kong, Internet Freedom, Occupy Central movement, Xu Dong
The following post from Professor Dong Zengshou (董增寿教授) was deleted from Sina Weibo sometime before 9:32AM today, November 13, 2014. Professor Dong Zengshou currently Continue reading
Remarks by Hu Yaobang’s son removed from Weibo已关闭评论
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Tagged Hu Deping, Hu Yaobang, Internet Freedom, Weibo