What to do when the law and basic humanity are in opposition? The Chinese internet has an answer: “Aim the rifle an inch higher” (枪口抬高一厘米, qiāngkǒu táigāo yī límǐ). The phrase is shorthand for subverting orders that violate...
On April 6, a Weibo user from Zhejiang province reported a case of local anti-fraud center overreach that resulted in his bank cards and Alipay account being frozen after he made a work-related call to a Singaporean bank. In a...
A pair of recently surfaced screenshots appear to offer unusual detail about a special month-long operation, held in Beijing and involving over 40 Ministry of Public Security computer specialists from around the country, to...
On August 9, Jianjiao Buluo or “Pepper Tribe,” an online platform dedicated to female workers, announced that it will cease updating content and will permanently close all properties linked to its official account....
An anonymous Chinese tech and politics blogger known as program-think (编程随想) has reportedly been detained in China after evading identification and arrest for more than 12 years. program-think, whose Blogspot posts included...
A notice circulating on the Chinese internet, believed to have been issued by a Hangzhou internet policing department, ordered an investigation into WeChat user “Vagrant” for criticizing Xi Jinping’s campaign against the...
Last week, Chinese and foreign news media—including CDT—covered the announcement by the Ministry...
Xinhua reports the launch of official social media accounts for local branches of China’s Internet police: Starting from June 1, internet police in 50 localities – including both metropolises such as Beijing and...
ESWN translates a story from Beijing News: Yu Bing was the former Internet Supervisory Department head in the Beijing City Public Security Bureau. Yesterday at the Number One Beijing City Middle Court, Yu was found guilty of...
Mingpao is reporting news of the arrest of the head of the Internet monitoring department of the Beijing Public Security Bureau on suspicion of accepting bribes. The original Chinese report is here; Excerpts translated by CDT:...
Speaking about the power of the “human flesh search engine” of Chinese netizens, the following post “What kind of communist is Mr. Chen Hua?” is quickly becoming the next case. Chen Hua (陈华)，Deputy...
Here is a newly posted group of photos circulating in the Chinese blogosphere. These photos give viewers a more tangible picture of Internet police at work: Society Public Information Security Network Membership Certificate,...
Where Are Chinese Internet Police Being Trained? This inetcop.com.cn website has the answer. The following is from the Xiamen Meiah Pico IT CO., Ltd. website, translated by CDT’s Lucy Lin: On July 30, 2004, the Ministry of...
What is behind the 200 million items of harmful online information removed by the government? From The New York Times: At first blush it sounds like quite an achievement: A marvelously named arm of the Chinese government, the...
This is my OP-ED piece on the San Francisco Chronicle: Development of the Internet in China is the result of government efforts to promote a knowledge-based economy in a global environment – all as part of a master plan to preserve the power of the Chinese Communist Party. The unintended result, however, is the ability […]
With the 17th Party Congress about to start and the 2008 Olympics Games approaching, censorship of Chinese media and the Internet has intensified more and more. According to the Beijing Evening News, starting from September 1,...
From AFP, via The Sydney Morning Herald: China’s Internet police took between five and eight hours to track down the new location of Reporters Without Borders’ Chinese language website and block it, the media freedom group said Wednesday. The site www.rsf-chinese.org was first launched on May 3 but access within China was quickly denied, the […]
From Danwei: China’s Internet regulators have rolled out a number of initiatives to manage online content, from MII’s non-commercial site registration in 2005, to last year’s cartoon “Internet police” (shown here), to the latest campaign to use “virtual cops” to clean up illicit activity by the end of June. Where does the manpower for all […]
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