Man using a laptop at a Beijing office of Sina Weibo, widely known as China’s version of Twitter, an early victim of President Xi Jinping’s ongoing campaign tighten online control, in April 2014 photo. AFP
The ruling Chinese Communist Party has published a warning to its officials using the popular chat app WeChat, banning them from making “off message” comments on social media. Continue reading
China Warns Officials to Stay on Message When Chatting Online已关闭评论
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Tagged censorship, Social Media, VPN, WeChat
A man surfs the Internet at a coffee shop in Beijing in a file photo. AFP
China says it will crack down in 2017 on the use of virtual private networks (VPNs) to get around the complex system of blocks, filters, and human censorship known as the Great Firewall that limits what its citizens can see online. Continue reading
China Shores up Great Firewall With New Rules Targeting VPNs已关闭评论
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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
Great Firewall rising: How China wages its war on the Internet已关闭评论
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Tagged censorship, China, Great Firewall, Internet Freedom, VPN
