Minitrue: Admonishing Online News Publishers
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
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Sina Faces News Shutdown Over Poor Censorship
The Cyberspace Administration of China threatened “a complete shut down” of Sina news...
Netizen Voices: Li Chengpeng Ousted From Sina
China’s influential “Big V” microbloggers have been primary targets in the...
Liberal Commentator Li Chengpeng Wiped Offline
As of March this year, social and political commentator Li Chengpeng’s Sina blog had received more...
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...
Planning for U.S. IPO, Sina Weibo Turns First-Ever Profit
The Wall Street Journal reports on microblogging service Sina Weibo’s plan to launch an IPO...
Sina Punishes More Than 100,000 Weibo Accounts
Paul Mozur at China Real Time reports restrictions on more than 100,000 Sina Weibo accounts for...
Netizen Voices: “Imaginary” Internet Company’s IPO
Weibo users respond to Twitter’s initial public offering on Friday: @微博搜索: The US financial bubble...
Weibo Users Shocked by “Non-Existent” Twitter’s IPO
News of Twitter’s IPO on Friday was greeted with wry comments on the service’s Chinese...
China’s Little Brothers Cleanse Online Chatter
At Reuters, Li Hui and Megha Rajagopalan look inside Sina Weibo’s Tianjin censorship center, where...
Websites Unite With Party To Squash Rumors
Bloomberg reports the latest development in Beijing’s battle against the “cancer” of online rumors, the launch of a new rumor-busting website by companies including Baidu, Sina, Sohu, and Netease: The site...
Disaster Shows Faith in China’s Red Cross Badly Shaken [Updated]
Saturday’s 6.6Mw earthquake in Sichuan has killed 193 and injured over 12,000, but has also laid bare the extent of damage to the reputation of the Red Cross Society of China. At The New York Times, Edward Wong examined...
Why Weibo Needs to Win the War with WeChat
At Tech in Asia, Charles Custer surveys the stakes in the brewing battle between between Sina Weibo and Tencent’s Weixin (or WeChat). Weibo, he argues, has repeatedly helped local social and environmental issues coalesce...
Chang Ping on Media Censorship and Its Future
At ChinaFile, Ouyang Bin talks to former Southern Weekly editor Chang Ping about the New Year censorship stand-off at the newspaper, China’s changing media climate, and prospects for reform under Xi Jinping. Why does it...
Southern Weekly Censorship Faceoff Continues (Updated)
The heavy-handed rewriting of the Southern Weekly newspaper’s traditional New Year greeting has triggered a staff strike, a barrage of letters and petitions, and an upwelling of popular support both on- and offline. In the...
Censorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series (29)
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
SEC Escalates Showdown With Chinese Audit Firms
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged the Chinese arms of the five big accounting firms with violations on Monday for failing to turn over audit reports on U.S.-listed Chinese companies, according to Reuters:...
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