Internet User of the Week: Keyboard Warrior
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Church of Almighty God
5 Members of “Evil Cult” on Trial for Murder
In May, five members of the fringe millenarian Christian group Church of Almighty God, also known...
Crackdown on Fringe Worries Mainstream Churches
Chinese officials arrested six members of the fringe doomsday group Church of Almighty God, also...
Minitrue: Sohu Editor Detained Over Weibo Post
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Crackdown on “Evil Cults” Follows Shandong Murder
On May 28, a woman was killed by a group of people in a McDonald’s in Shandong after...
Minitrue: Activists, Almighty God Church “Collude”
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Editor Detained Over Photo Linking Mao to Sect
Austin Ramzy at The New York Times reports that a Beijing-based web editor has been detained...
Drawing the News: Blood Spilt Yesterday, Today
This week, CDT presents political cartoons, shared on the Chinese Internet, about a murder at...
Sensitive Words: Photoshop Strikes Again
As of December 25, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search...
China Still Exists; Beijing’s Doomsday Problem Persists
The People’s Republic of China, like the rest of the world, still existed as of 19:30 PST on December 21st, 2012. U.F.O.-watchers had gathered in Hunan, anti-cult organisations had issued reassuring text messages, and the...
Doomsday Cult Crackdown Underlies Broader Unease
With the government cracking down on apocalypse rumors this week, rounding up members of an outlawed cult known as the Church of Almighty God, The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos explores the Communist Party’s uneasy...
Ministry of Truth: The “Almighty God Cult”
The following example of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies by...
China Cracks Down on Apocalypse Rumors
As China braces for the end of the world, the Washington Post reports China has detained 93 people including members of a quasi-Christian cult who claim that the world will end in a few days: Scores and perhaps hundreds of...
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