From The Los Angeles Times, via smh.com.au: With their control over newspapers, television, magazines and the internet secure, censors in China are now turning their attention to the nation’s karaoke parlours. The Ministry of Culture has issued new rules to prevent “unhealthy” songs from ringing forth in the sing-along bars, and to safeguard intellectual property […]
Read MoreFrom the Economist: YOU might think that China’s media have been having a hard time in recent months: editors sacked, reporters jailed, new curbs announced on what they can report, new clampdowns on the internet. But is it as bad as it sounds? Even as the authorities attempt to tighten controls, the media keep fighting […]
Read MoreFrom New America Media: Technology has been a way to thwart the government’s efforts in controlling the public. In 1989, Tiananmen Square protesters used fax machines to reach out to the international press. Last year, 12,000 workers mobilized using cell phone text messages to go on strike against their company. The blogosphere’s high interconnectedness made […]
Read MoreFrom the China Media Project: The chaos of China’s present media environment, where paranoid control and censorship work alongside commercialization and fierce competition, can make for delightful surprises. Despite the daily obstacle course of orders and bans, independent voices do emerge in the Chinese media. Editorials are one of the best places to look for […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Chinese authorities have announced their intention to step up their efforts to police and control the Internet and other communications technologies, including instant messaging and cellphones. Speaking at a conference in Beijing last Wednesday, Cai Wu, director of the powerful Information Office of the State Council, or China’s cabinet, said […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters TV: The Internet is a powerful tool. Not only does it give us information, but for pro-democracy movements around the world, it brings new ways for campaigning. In China, even government censorship is proving a weak match against the world-wide-web. [Full Text] See also Measures to tighten Web controls by South China Morning […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via Scotsman.com News: With the trees in bloom and the sun shining, students strolling the grounds of Beijing’s leafy university campuses shouldn’t have a care in the world. They’ve marked themselves out as China’s best and brightest by winning coveted places in college and are graduating into a country experiencing breakneck economic growth, […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: The search engines of two of the most popular Web portals on the mainland have been blocked in a sign of intensified internet censorship, with millions of users expected to be affected. Sina and Sohu are the latest victims of Beijing’s increasing control of the internet […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: All this underscores, I think, that China is not the police state that its leaders sometimes would like it to be; the Communist Party’s monopoly on information is crumbling, and its monopoly on power will follow. The Internet is chipping away relentlessly at the Party, for even 30,000 censors can’t […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei: Now that Rupert Murdoch has proven that Western media companies can’t get ahead in China through flattery, nepotism and the back door, we at Danwei will have to have to find a new model for our business. In case you didn’t know, Rupert is the world’s last true media mogul – his company, […]
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