Chongqing Unveils Penalties for Climbing Great Firewall
At South China Morning Post, Eva Li reports that authorities in Chongqing have released details of...
Internet blocking
BBC Sites Blocked Amid Accusations of Foreign Interference in Hong Kong
The BBC has condemned the apparent blocking of its English-language websites in China: BBC Global...
China’s Tough New Internet Rules Explained
In August, China’s State Internet Information Office passed a new set of Internet...
China Targets Extremist Internet Content
Following recent episodes of violent attacks in the country that have been labeled by state media...
Aba County: Where China Shut Off the Internet
The New Republic’s Christopher Beam describes life offline in Aba (Ngaba) county in Sichuan,...
Lantern Program Allows Chinese to Dodge Firewall
An increasing number of Internet users in China are turning to Lantern, a US-sponsored computer...
New York Times Chinese Site “Under Review”
The New York Times has reported aggressively on the conflict between business and journalism in...
China’s Internet ‘Wall’ Hits Foreign, Domestic Business
As online regulation tightens, Paul Mozur and Carlos Tejada report on its growing toll on foreign businesses in China. From The Wall Street Journal: Fredrik Bergman ran into a problem when a client in Sweden tried to transfer...
China Briefly an Internet Island (Updated)
As Iran (possibly) moves forward with plans to cut itself off from the global Internet, and Beijing rails against online rumours, a mysterious hour-long disruption of web traffic in and out of China set off flurries of nervous...
Weibo: The Death of the Pseudonym?
Fear of further restrictive internet policy is rising in China’s microblogging community after the publication of an editorial piece in the Beijing Daily. China Real Time Report posted Catherine Yeung’s translation...
Tibetan News Site and Blog Host Shut Down (Updated)
Update: Wangchuk Tseten will talk about the site and its closure at Columbia University on Thursday evening (March 24). Details here. TibetCul.com, a news site and blog host with some 80,000 users, appears to have been taken...
Sina Weibo Shutdown Unlikely
At Digicha, Bill Bishop explains Chinese tech blogger Keso’s recent comments on why, although Sina Weibo has been subject to various restrictions in recent weeks, the government is unlikely to pull the plug completely:...
Video: Dancing With Shackles On
Dancing With Shackles On (via Danwei) is a new short film (16:23 about censorship and self-censorship on the Chinese Internet by Desiree Marianini and Janek Zdzarski, including interviews with Wang Xiaofeng, Qi Youyi, Jeremy...
US Offers $30 Million to Scale the Great Firewall
The US State Department is offering $30 million to fund projects fostering “freedom of expression and the free flow of information on the Internet and other connection technologies in East Asia, including China,” and...
Google: Net Censorship Amounts To Undeclared Trade War
Ars Technica adds to other coverage of a Google white paper which argues that Internet censorship constitutes an illegal trade barrier. While the article starts with Turkey’s repeated blocking of YouTube, it inevitably...
CDT Launches Social Bookmarking Project to Track Blocked Websites
Currently in China, hundreds of thousands of websites are blocked by the Great Firewall (GFW). To provide a picture of what is blocked, CDT is launching a user-generated social bookmarking project, via del.icio.us, to categorize...
BBC Video: China’s Digital Revolution – Xiao Qiang (萧强) Interview
From BBC: Xiao Qiang (萧强) is adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of China Digital Times, a bilingual collaborative China news...
China Blocks State-Funded Berlin Twitter Wall
From Monsters and Critics: Chinese authorities appear to be blocking access to a state-funded website which recalls the evil of the Berlin Wall, organizers of the culture project in the German capital said Thursday. The website...
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