Community of Users Mourn App Shutdown
The State Administration of Radio and Television (formerly the State Administration of Press,...
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Media Regulator to Cleanup Online Video Platforms
The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film, and Television (SAPPRFT) issued a...
Censors Target Hip-Hop in Public Opinion Crackdown
A government order to Chinese broadcasters issued last week, along with the hasty removal of...
China Continues Crackdown on Live Streaming Platforms
China’s state media regulator has issued a new order requiring all live streaming platforms...
Minitrue: Don’t Hype Actor’s Affair Accusations
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Minitrue: Don’t Hype Ministry of Culture’s Music Blacklist
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Lu Wei Lays Out Four Rules for Being a “Good Netizen”
Last week was China’s second annual “Awareness Week for National Cybersecurity,”...
133 WeChat Accounts Closed for “Distorting History”
Reuters’ Paul Carsten reports that Tencent has shut down 133 accounts on their popular...
Sex, Murder, Ghosts Banned From TV Streaming Sites
At the Global Times, Cao Siqi reports on new Internet regulations banning a wide range of online...
5% of Active WeChat Accounts Shut Down for Prostitution Ties
Amid an ongoing government campaign to increase central “Internet management”...
Sensitive Words: Tiananmen, Bo Xilai, More
As of May 22, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for user”...
State Media Defends “Internet Management” as U.S. TV Shows are Kicked Offline
To mark the 20th anniversary of Internet access in China, Xinhua published an editorial last week...
China’s Cyberporn Crackdown Not Really About Porn
The National Office Against Pornographic and Illegal Publications, a branch of China’s main...
A Place Where Capitalism and Hedonism Meet
The 11th Annual National Sex Culture Festival (第十一届全国广州性文化节) was held in Guangzhou from November...
50 Microblogs Shuttered as Web Crackdown Continues
An official with China’s new Internet watchdog announced Monday that authorities recently shut down 50 microblogs for pornography and vulgarity, the latest in a series of crackdowns since the government began implementing...
China Suspends Popular Talent Show for "Exceeding Time Limits"
The talent show Super Girl has been forced off the air for allegedly exceeding maximum time limits, but the move may indicate a tightening of control over programming that promotes content the government deems offensive. From...
Three Ways of Looking at the PRC’s Latest Campaigns
Jeffrey Wasserstrom argues that recent campaigns by the CCP may owe as much to Chiang Kai-shek and Lee Kuan Yew as to Mao Zedong: There’s no question that Mao left an indelible mark on China (this may be the only point of...
China Jails Man 13 Years for Running Porn Web Site
From AP: The court in the Guangdong province city of Jiangmen handed down the sentence to Huang Yizhong and fined him 100,000 yuan ($14,600), the official Xinhua News Agency said. Huang pleaded guilty to charges of copying and...
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