Journalism, Censorship, and the 19th Party Congress
At Deutsche Welle, Sabine Peschel talks to Audrey Jiajia Li, a former TV journalist who has turned...
Internet freedom
Translation: Xi Jinping, Internet Sage
China held its third annual World Internet Conference in the Zhejiang town of Wuzhen this week. In...
Can China Perfect Internet Censorship?
In 2013, Google chairman Eric Schmidt predicted that widespread encryption offered “a real...
Phrase of the Week: Use the Internet Scientifically
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Minitrue: Scrub Obama’s Call for Open Internet
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Freedom With An Asterisk
The Economist reports on “a survey conducted in recent months in 17 countries for BBC World...
Lantern Program Allows Chinese to Dodge Firewall
An increasing number of Internet users in China are turning to Lantern, a US-sponsored computer...
Hengqin New Area Aims to Skirt Great Firewall
The Global Times reports that local authorities in the Hengqin New Area Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Zhuhai, Guangdong province have applied to bypass the Great Firewall. Local authorities are hoping that the State Internet...
Saying of the Week: China’s Internet Is Open
The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online...
Censorship Vault: Hillary on Internet Freedom
From the Censorship Vault features previously untranslated censorship instructions from the archives of the CDT series Directives from the Ministry of Truth (真理部指令). QuanzhouNet: Provincial Propaganda Notice Carry only domestic...
Netizen Voices: No Place Is Outside the Law
When CCTV aired V for Vendetta, uncut, last Friday, netizens thought it was a sign that reform is truly on its way. They were a bit crushed, then, to read a signed article in Tuesday’s People’s Daily entitled “The Internet...
Word of the Week: Elephant of Truth
Editor’s Note: The CDT Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon is a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online “resistance discourse,” used to...
Neijiang’s Internet Espionage
The following report from Neijiang, Sichuan was originally published by Radio France...
Global Times Backs Twitter Policy
Twitter’s new censorship policy may have irked Ai Wei Wei, but China’s state-run Global Times welcomed the new rules in a Monday editorial: Many regard this declaration of adapting to local censorship laws as a...
Twitter A Haven Amid New Rules
Chinese netizens posted record-breaking numbers on microblogging site Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter-equivalent, in the first minute of the Year of the Dragon. But with the Chinese government implementing new Internet...
China to Extend Microblogging Requirements
As part of a broader information strategy unveiled this week, the top official at China’s State Council Information Office announced nationwide expansion plans for recently implemented regulations that require...
Microblogging: Air Conditioning of the Masses
In BBC News, Michael Bristow surveys China’s microblogging landscape and asks users of Sina Weibo for a view from the trenches of China’s information war: The very first response was a simple icon, showing a face...
China Blocks U.S. Push on Web Freedom (Update)
This week U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a speech about global Internet freedom, in which she specifically referred to China. The speech was followed by a concerted outreach effort by the U.S. Embassy in...
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