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.

High speed Net via power lines to come to rural China

Posted by Sophie Beach | Dec 3, 2003

The Chinese government is planning to provide Internet access via power lines to rural areas in the west of the country, according to an article in the South China Morning Post (registration required). A trial will be carried out in 10,000 households in Beijing and then implemented in the western provinces, where most households don’t […]

CPJ statement on Liu Di and Du Daobin

Posted by Sophie Beach | Dec 1, 2003

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) welcomes the release of Internet writer Liu Di but is gravely concerned that another Internet essayist, Du Daobin, has been charged with “subversion” and remains in jail. See news alert here.