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Sensitive Words highlights keywords that are blocked from Sina Weibo search results. CDT independently tests the keywords before posting them, but some searches later become accessible again. We...
Short video platform TikTok’s enormous popularity among young Westerners, together with its ownership by Beijing-based AI entertainment firm Bytedance, has brought steadily mounting scrutiny in recent months. Critics...
Short video-sharing platform TikTok has been enjoying explosive growth in its mostly young international audience. It has been described in The Washington Post as “the first Chinese app to truly pierce the global Internet...
On October 29th, the Shuangqiao branch office of Chengde City Public Security Bureau in Hebei Province released a “police announcement” on Weibo. The notice said that the bureau “cracked” a case involving...
On October 26th, a Twitter user reported that his WeChat account was suspended for “spreading malicious rumors” after he posted a comment about Winnie the Pooh subsequent to sharing an article on President Xi Jinping. The...
On October 6th, a Sina Weibo user who was unhappy with the backlash over the Houston Rockets...
Huang Qi, who became known as China’s first cyber dissident after his first arrest in 2000,...
Last year, leaked plans for “Project Dragonfly,” a China-focused Google search...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
China’s already restrictive internet censorship tightened further ahead of this week’s...
In the run-up to the 30th anniversary of the June 4 military crackdown on peaceful protesters in...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
In recent months, Chinese tech workers have used the Microsoft-owned codesharing platform GitHub...
Chinese programmers are coming together through a viral Github campaign to protest against...
The growing burden of Chinese authorities’ increasingly stringent censorship demands has...
State news agency Xinhua reported on Tuesday that former "Cyberczar" and senior...
Last Friday saw the publication of “The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an...
News last year of Google’s “Project Dragonfly,” a censorship- and...
Last Saturday, The Wall Street Journal’s Josh Chin examined the emergence of distinct...
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