Pre-Congress Pressure Mounts on Tech Firms, Users
At this year’s Two Sessions legislative and political advisory meetings in Beijing in...
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LatestNew Rules Limit User-Generated Content
Following new regulations that require websites to acquire special licenses before streaming...
China Continues Crackdown on Live Streaming Platforms
China’s state media regulator has issued a new order requiring all live streaming platforms...
Deng-era Reformist Warns of Overreaching Censorship
At South China Morning Post, Nectar Gan reports a newly published warning from former...
Drawing the News: Courtroom Level Up
More than a million people watched the two-day live-streamed trial of a video sharing platform...
38 Anime Titles Blacklisted for Lewd, Violent Content
China’s Ministry of Culture has released a blacklist of 38 Japanese cartoons for containing...
Internet Police Emerge from Behind the Curtains
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...
Sina Faces News Shutdown Over Poor Censorship
The Cyberspace Administration of China threatened “a complete shut down” of Sina news...
GFW Fail: Visitors to Blocked Sites Redirected to Porn
Greatfire.org reports that changes to China’s DNS cache poisoning technique, an Internet...
Sex, Murder, Ghosts Banned From TV Streaming Sites
At the Global Times, Cao Siqi reports on new Internet regulations banning a wide range of online...
“Speech is Free; Rumors are Not”
Following the announcement of new restrictions on instant messaging and a fresh string of arrests,...
China to Require App Developer Registration
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has announced the implementation of...
Sensitive Words: May Thirty-fifth and More
As of May 27, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for user”...
Sensitive Words: Tiananmen, Bo Xilai, More
As of May 22, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for user”...
Minitrue: Wei Pengyuan, Army GMO Ban, QVOD Porn
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
State Media Defends “Internet Management” as U.S. TV Shows are Kicked Offline
To mark the 20th anniversary of Internet access in China, Xinhua published an editorial last week...
Sensitive Words: Lin Zhao, Pornography, More
As of April 28, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search...
Sina Loses Publication Licenses Over Lewd Content
China’s state media regulator says it will revoke Sina’s licenses to publish...
