Sophie Beach

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.

Hacking through the Great Firewall (The World)

“China’s government keeps watch over the Internet and blocks controversial websites. But some Chinese webusers won’t be deterred. They’re surfing past Beijing censors with help from the outside. The World’s technology correspondent Clark Boyd tells how some Chinese are hacking through the great firewall of China. ” Listen to the audio report here. Scroll down […]

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Analysts predict telecom battle between India and China (AFP)

“India’s mobile phone industry which sells two million new connections each month is poised to give neighbouring China a fight for foreign investment, officials said… ‘The big hardworking Indian elephant has finally hit the dance floor and is going to make it rumble and shake. The Chinese dragon will have to watch its tail,’ [Vijay […]

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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 […]

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Falun 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 […]

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