Xu Zhiyong Held Overnight, Released
NPR’s Louisa Lim reports that rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong has returned home after being held overnight “to prevent him from petitioning [the] education bureau with non-Beijing parents”. Rumours of his detention,...
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Ai Weiwei Released on Bail; Xu Zhiyong Reportedly Detained
Xinhua reports that Ai Weiwei has been released on bail in recognition of his cooperative attitude and chronic illness: The Beijing police department said Wednesday that Ai Weiwei has been released on bail because of his good...
With A Whimper And Not A Bang
ESWN translates a Beijing Times article that marks the death of the Green Dam filtering software experiment: Last Friday, a mysterious person tipped us that the office of the Green Dam-Youth Escort Software Project in the...
China’s Web Crackdown Continues
In the Wall Street Journal, Gordon Crovitz, former publisher of The Wall Street Journal, writes: China is doing its best to remind us that technology can also be a tool of suppression, with Beijing recommitting to censoring its...
China Faces U.S. Piracy Lawsuit for Internet-Filtering Software
From Bloomberg: China was accused of piracy in a lawsuit filed by a California software maker, which said the Green Dam Youth Escort filtering program installed on personal computers in the country infringes its copyright....
Evan Osnos: Top Ten China Myths of 2009
On his New Yorker blog, Evan Osnos parses out ten myths about China that were in circulation this year, including: Chinese Web users have no impact on the government. Fact: In June, China unveiled plans to require all new...
CBS Interactive Sued For Distributing China’s Green Dam Filter
From InformationWeek: Solid Oak Software, the Santa Barbara, Calif.-based maker of Internet filter CYBERsitter, on Monday filed a $1.2 million copyright infringement lawsuit against CBS Interactive. The lawsuit alleges that CBS...
Han Han: Finding Happiness by Being Different
It is interesting that the official agency Xinhua runs a story on Han Han (in English only), who has openly criticized the censorship system, Green Dam and “Dofu-built schools.” When racing driver Han Han flipped the...
Washington Post: China’s Great Firewall
The Washington Post published an editorial Monday about the demise of Green Dam: LAST THURSDAY, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced its withdrawal of requirements that Green Dam Internet...
Alice Xin Liu: Green Dam About-face Inspires Hope
Danwei’s Alice Xin Liu opines in the Guardian about the government backing down over the Green Dam filtering software and what it means for Internet activism in China: The decision is momentous and the government’s...
Tweets of the Week: Tan Zuoren, Xu Zhiyong, Twitter and Green Dam (Updated)
Despite the blocking of Twitter, Chinese politically-active tweeters are still tweeting away. Some hot keywords from the last week? Tan Zuoren, Xu Zhiyong, Twitter and Green Dam. Here are selected tweets on these topics,...
China Warms to New Credo: Business First
From the New York Times: Beijing has a global footprint now, a consequence of its booming domestic growth and breakneck international expansion. And decisions that once were made on purely parochial grounds — like censoring Web...
Minister: China Won’t Force Internet Filter
From Wall Street Journal: China’s industry minister Li Yizhong said Thursday that China won’t force the mass installation of the Green Dam Internet filtering software on personal computers and other consumer...
Li Datong: China’s Civil Society: Breaching the Green Dam
Journalist Li Datong writes for China Dialogue about the emerging online civil society movement that scored an important victory with its opposition to the Green Dam filtering software: Opposition took a range of forms. Some...
The Net Revolution: Chinese Netizens vs. Green Dam
Written by Willy Lam, Senior Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation, from China Brief: Celebrations that Beijing has bowed to global pressure and scrapped an order to use filtering software in all personal computers have turned out...
Phelim Kine: Leaning on the Dragon
Written by Phelim Kine, Asia researcher for Human Rights Watch, from New York Times: Who says the Chinese government isn’t susceptible to pressure? Its last-minute suspension of an order requiring the pre-installation of...
PC Makers Offer China Internet Filter
From AFP: Several PC makers said Friday they were voluntarily including China’s controversial Internet filter software in new shipments despite Beijing’s decision to postpone making it mandatory. The government had...
Chinese Netizens Celebrate Green Dam Delay
From the Chosun Ilbo: Many Internet users in China are celebrating after Beijing delayed implementing its order that Internet-blocking software be installed in all new computers. News of the delay turned a scheduled Internet...
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