After months of mounting scrutiny of American companies’ involvement with Chinese AI and surveillance technology, and particularly its deployment in Xinjiang, the spotlight has returned to Google with renewed pressure over its AI research partnerships. “Billionaire Tech Investor Peter Thiel...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online...
Last year, leaked plans for “Project Dragonfly,” a China-focused Google search...
News last year of Google’s “Project Dragonfly,” a censorship- and...
In August The Intercept’s Ryan Gallagher revealed that Google had been working in secret on...
At the WIRED 25 Summit on Monday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai commented on the company’s plans,...
The ability to persistently link people’s identities and activities is a core theme of China’s...
A backlash has mounted in recent weeks following leaked news that Google has been preparing search...
Following a leak that revealed plans by Google to reenter China with a censored search engine,...
Google’s controversial plan to relaunch a censored search engine in China–one that...
The Intercept reported last week that Google is planning to re-enter the Chinese market with the...
China’s Cyberspace Administration (CAC), which saw the announcement of an unexpected...
Percy Alpha, an independent Internet freedom researcher and co-founder of GreatFire.org, observes...
China’s online controls have not stopped four of its biggest internet companies from...
Dan Levin at The New York Times reports that Chinese authorities have blocked Google’s...
At the New Republic, Christopher Beam describes his experience using Baidu’s autocomplete...
Google’s global move toward encrypting search by default, which began last month, was...
Following accusations that Microsoft internationally censored politically sensitive content on its...
Censorship monitor GreatFire.org has accused Microsoft’s Bing search engine of censoring...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Chinese journalists and bloggers often refer to these instructions as “Directives from the Ministry...
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