Nobody was surprised when Clubhouse, the viral app on which Chinese users shared their unfiltered views with global audiences, was blocked in China. Users had widely anticipated that Clubhouse would have to die. But the sudden...
Audio social-networking app Clubhouse has been banned in China since Monday evening. Much has been written in English language media about the explosion in popularity in China that preceded its ban, lamenting its...
Hong Kong authorities have reportedly used new powers under the National Security Law to block a website that chronicled data about the 2019 Hong Kong protests. The unprecedented move has raised fears that, after decades of...
The year just past has been one unlike any other in recent memory, in China and around the globe. As the year began, residents of Wuhan were just learning about a new virus that had emerged in their city. By the end of January,...
TripAdvisor China, along with 104 other applications, has been banned in China as part of a sweeping internet “cleanup.” It is unclear why the travel company, a joint partnership between Massachusetts-based TripAdivsor and...
Netizens recently noticed that since July, the Zhejiang Provincial Government Services website has been publicly posting “resolutions on administrative punishment” for individuals and organizations charged with...
In April, the U.S. State Department announced the “5G Clean Path” initiative which “will begin requiring a Clean Path for all 5G network traffic entering and exiting U.S. diplomatic facilities,” by...
China’s already restrictive internet censorship tightened further ahead of this week’s...
In recent months, Chinese tech workers have used the Microsoft-owned codesharing platform GitHub...
Concerns over the growing international acceptance of the “China model” of internet...
Last Friday saw the publication of “The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an...
Recent months have seen a spate of detentions and interrogations of Twitter users within China,...
Although blocked since 2009, Twitter has long hosted a sizeable community of users within China,...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
A string of reports this week have described foreign businesses’ preparations for and...
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
As President Trump travels to China on his “state visit-plus,” some are wondering if...
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