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13 May 2011

China: Cracking down circumvention tools

Written by Oiwan Lam · regulation

A number of Chinese netizens report that since May 6 2011 visiting overseas website via China Telecom and China Unicom has become highly unstable. This time the disruption mainly affected...

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4 May 2011

China: Political Spam in Twitter

Written by Oiwan Lam · Feature

The tag system in Twitter is an effective way in distributing information beyond a user's social network. However, the system can easily be contaminated by spam messages. In western countries,...

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2 May 2011

China: Exposing Internet Surveillance Abroad

Written by Oiwan Lam · law

The U.S-China Human Rights Dialogue did not have any concrete consensus last week. While the U.S government questioned Chinese government's crackdown on dissent, oppression of religion and expression freedom, Chinese...

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9 April 2011

China: A Typical Online Political Harassment

Written by Oiwan Lam · Arrest and Harassment

Not only do Chinese dissidents and human rights activists face political prosecution from the government, they are also subjected to daily harassment from the so-called 50 cent party. Tsering Woser...

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23 March 2011

China: 130 thousand Internet cafes shut down in six years

Written by Oiwan Lam · Feature

According to the “2010 China Internet Cafe Market Report” released by the Ministry of Culture on March 17 2011, more than 130 thousand unlicensed Internet cafes had been shut down...

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20 March 2011

China: PPTP and L2TP VPN protocols blocked

Written by Oiwan Lam · Feature

Update March 22: A reader reported back via email that only some of the PPTP and L2TP protocols have been blocked and interrupted in China and he has not encountered...

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4 March 2011

China: Tracking mobile users' movement

Written by Oiwan Lam · Advocacy

According to Beijing Morning Post on March 2 2011, China Mobile Beijing would turn 17 million mobile phone into monitoring devices. The monitoring system could detect the population flow 24...

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