Nine months ago, I posted the list of 1041 filtered words from a file obtained by a Chinese hacker from a Chinese Internet company Tencent. This list was also cross checked with another two lists CDT independently received from...
Read MoreFrom Yahoo! News: “Zhao’s death could yet become a rallying point for change. After all, the Tiananmen Square movement itself sprang from the spontaneous outpouring of grief following the death of Zhao’s reformist predecessor, Hu Yaobang. Similar protests followed Zhou Enlai’s death in 1976. ‘To mourn Zhao is to defend human rights,’ Bao Tong, one […]
Read MoreIt is an open secret that all Chinese Internet hosting services, including wireless and instant messenger services, filter user communication through key word blocking mechanisms. But overly vague and broad Chinese internet laws...
Read MoreLast Saturday, November 8, was China’s National Journalists’ Day—often an occasion for mixed feelings among China’s beleaguered independent journalists. The WeChat account 磨稿子 Mó Gǎozi, or “Polishing Manuscripts,”...
Read MoreCDT presents a new monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we will publish a summary of content blocked or deleted (often yielding the message “404: content not...
Read MoreJune 4, the date of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, is among the most sensitive dates on the Chinese political calendar. Any attempts to draw attention to the event are routinely censored on the Chinese internet. This year, as...
Read MoreThe annual Two Sessions political meetings in Beijing have been accompanied by the traditional blanket of controls to avoid outbreaks of visible public dissent, on- or offline. This year, these measures include restrictions on...
Read MoreAs 2024 draws to a close, CDT editors are compiling a series of the most notable content (Chinese) from across the Chinese internet over the past year. Topics include this year’s most outstanding quotes, reports, podcasts and...
Read MoreA massive food-safety scandal over the “open industry secret” of using fuel tanker-trucks to transport cooking oil and other edible products—without the tankers being washed or sanitized in between—is still generating a flood of...
Read MoreIt is well known that many Chinese local governments are cash-strapped, burdened by excessive debt, and searching for ways to replenish their depleted coffers. Reports abound of local governments, utilities, and even police...
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