Jeremiah Jenne writes on the China Beat blog: In the hours and days following the event, there were several cases of words and especially images misrepresenting what was going on in Tibet. While I don’t think it was necessarily...
Read MoreThe International Herald Tribune reports that given China’s view that foreign media coverage of the Tibetans protests is unfair, Beijing has blocked access to journalists to affected regions as well as internet and...
Read MoreFrom China’s most prominent technology commentator and blogger keso’s blog: Playin’ with IT, translated by Linjun Fan: The year of 2007 ended dramatically. On December 27, two Chinese government departments...
Read MoreFrom Reuters via The Financial Times: China’s cabinet said on Wednesday that it would temporarily intervene in the market to curb price rises of basic necessities like food, underlining its concern over mounting inflationary pressures. China is currently facing its worst consumer inflation in 11 years, driven largely by soaring food prices. Inflation has sometimes […]
Read MoreFrom AP via Los Angeles Times: Information controls are a barrier to social progress and innovation, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a speech Monday in China, whose communist leaders maintain a firm grip on all media. Bloomberg , founder of the financial news business that bears his name, also called on China to […]
Read MoreIn the wake of a domestic uproar over “vulgar” pop songs, the New York Times looks at what happens when popular music is “harmonized”: Even without resorting to direct censorship, the state has formidable...
Read MoreFrom AP: “With less than a year to go to the Olympic Games, there is an urgent need for the government to stop blocking thousands of Web sites, censoring online news and imprisoning Internet users,” Reporters Without Borders said in a statement. Though the communist government promotes Internet use, it has also set up an […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: The Internet in China is not as restricted as sometimes believed in the West, with most controls actually coming from sites practising self-censorship, an academic who studies the Chinese Web said on Thursday. But the government has also effectively stopped online dissent, defying expectations that the Communist Party would never survive broadband, said […]
Read MoreIn addition to distributing a list of slogans that promote China’s one-child policy, officials have banned what they deem to be “offensive” birth control slogans. From the Boston Globe: China has banned crude and insensitive slogans promoting the country’s ‘one-child’ family planning policy, such as “Raise fewer babies but more piggies,” which have stoked anger […]
Read MoreChina Media Project reports that State Administration of Radio Film and Television (SARFT) tightened the control of “ads with ‘subtle sexual connotations’ as well as ads for ‘illegal’ medications and those promising to enhance sexual performance.” …While the SARFT notice presses local television stations across China to “broadcast advertisements in accord with laws and regulations,” […]
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