China is leading the global trend towards cyber sovereignty, a norm based on the use of technology to control what sort of information can be accessed and exchanged within a national boundary and by whom. Several recent reports...
At South China Morning Post, Eva Li reports that authorities in Chongqing have released details of...
The BBC has condemned the apparent blocking of its English-language websites in China: BBC Global...
In August, China’s State Internet Information Office passed a new set of Internet...
Following recent episodes of violent attacks in the country that have been labeled by state media...
The New Republic’s Christopher Beam describes life offline in Aba (Ngaba) county in Sichuan,...
An increasing number of Internet users in China are turning to Lantern, a US-sponsored computer...
The New York Times has reported aggressively on the conflict between business and journalism in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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