Chongqing Unveils Penalties for Climbing Great Firewall
At South China Morning Post, Eva Li reports that authorities in Chongqing have released details of...
Mar 28, 2017
At South China Morning Post, Eva Li reports that authorities in Chongqing have released details of...
Oct 15, 2014
The BBC has condemned the apparent blocking of its English-language websites in China: BBC Global...
Sep 16, 2014
In August, China’s State Internet Information Office passed a new set of Internet...
Jun 20, 2014
Following recent episodes of violent attacks in the country that have been labeled by state media...
Dec 6, 2013
The New Republic’s Christopher Beam describes life offline in Aba (Ngaba) county in Sichuan,...
Dec 5, 2013
An increasing number of Internet users in China are turning to Lantern, a US-sponsored computer...
Nov 27, 2013
The New York Times has reported aggressively on the conflict between business and journalism in...
Feb 15, 2013
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...
Apr 12, 2012
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...
Oct 19, 2011
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...
Mar 20, 2011
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...
Mar 5, 2011
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:...
Mar 1, 2011
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...
Jan 6, 2011
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...
Nov 18, 2010
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...
Jan 19, 2010
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...
Dec 11, 2009
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...
Oct 29, 2009
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...