Despite new rules passed by the National People’s Congress to tighten control over the Internet, The Diplomat’s David Cohen calls attention to two recent state media reports which extolled the role of the web and...
Read MoreCCTV’s uncut airing of the long-banned 2005 film V for Vendetta – the dystopian story of revolution that has become a global allegory of rebellion – incited droves of Weibo users to wonder if this broadcast...
Read MoreAs Internet users in China have reported, scaling the Great Firewall of Internet censorship by using VPNs has become increasingly difficult in recent weeks, with several of the most reliable services being blocked. As the...
Read MoreThe following example of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies by various central (and sometimes local) government authorities, has been leaked and distributed online. Chinese journalists and...
Read MoreTea Leaf Nation’s Yueran Zhang explores the shifting winds in the Chinese news media, where a number of “personnel earthquakes” have seen influential members of the country’s independent media leave or be...
Read MoreIn India, online rumours of ethnic violence have driven hundreds of thousands from their homes and, as self-fulfilling prophecies, left dozens dead. From Ishaan Tharoor at TIME: In the world’s largest democracy, recent fears of...
Read MoreThe office of In-Media [zh], a Hong Kong citizen journalism website, was attacked by masked men earlier this week. The Wall Street Journal’s China Realtime Report provides the details: Witnesses said that in the early...
Read MoreAn episode of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation show Foreign Correspondent recently went viral on weibo, with 7.5 million clicks on a program about the “fu er dai” or rich second-generation. China correspondent...
Read MoreIn September of last year, California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R) introduced H.R. 2899 – the Chinese Media Reciprocity Act of 2011, now being debated in the U.S. House of Representatives. If the bill were to be...
Read MoreNow that the protests over a proposed molybdenum copper plant in Shifang, Sichuan have been resolved, observers are focusing on how government controls over information sparked or exacerbated the situation and on the long-term...
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