Text messages rise 91% in past year
According to AFP: “Chinese sent some 15.6 billion short messages through their mobile phones during January, a rise of 91 percent over the same period last year.” Read full text.
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Sophie Beach is CDT's Operations and Communications Manager. From 2003-2021, she served as Executive Editor of CDT English. She lives in Berkeley, California.
China Clamps Down on Web News Discussion
The Los Angeles Times reported today that authorities in China have issued new regulations limiting discussions and postings on online news forums: “The new rules ban independent reporting that hasn’t been approved by the government, discussion of sensitive issues such as economic failures, and Web postings that challenge the Communist Party…Although the government has gone […]
Read MoreFalun Gong practitioners jailed for Internet writing
The official Xinhua news agency reported that five people were sentenced to between 5 and 14 years for “libeling the government” after they distributed news online about abuse of an imprisoned Falun Gong practitioner. The court said that their writing, “severely damaged the regular work of governmental departments and tarnished the images of the government […]
Read MoreThe business of stifling the Internet in Asia
According to an article on Asia Times online: “Internet users are losing ground in the censorship war being fought in Asia’s cyberwaves, partly because Western corporations are helping to undermine the spirit of enterprise that made the medium such a potent weapon for free speech. While smarter and more discreet communication technologies offer a way […]
Read MoreChina debutes Uighur language compatible cell phone
The “first ethnic language-supporting cell phone in China” was launched this week, according to the AP. A new phone launched Thursday features menus, text-messaging ability and voice-activated dialing in the Uighur language, which is spoken in the predominately Muslim region of Xinjiang in northwest China. The full article is here
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