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26 January 2013

Video Advocacy Races Forward: 2012’s Dangers & 2013’s Solutions

Written by WITNESS · Activism, Advocacy, Anonymity, Arrest and Harassment, Bahrain, Brazil, Burma, Feature, Global, Human Rights, Latin America, Middle East & North Africa, Protest, Saudi Arabia, Surveillance, Syria

Video is increasingly at the nexus of opportunity and danger for human rights activists. Video helps activists to document, confront, circumvent, and lobby against oppressive authorities—but it also allows those authorities to stalk them. Here's what we think will happen in 2013.

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9 January 2013

China: Google's Quiet Withdrawal of Censorship Warning Raises Questions

Written by Oiwan Lam · Feature, News, Southeast Asia, Sovereigns of the Cyberspace

Google has quietly removed a feature that used to inform users from mainland China of censored keywords. Is this---as some speculate---a move by Google to please Beijing in an attempt to reenter the Chinese market?

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7 January 2013

China: Sina Weibo Manager Discloses Internal Censorship Practices

Written by Oiwan Lam · Feature, Freedom of Expression, Internet governance, News, Protest, Regulation, Southeast Asia

One Sina Weibo manager , frustrated by the pressure from the Propaganda Department imposed upon him and his colleagues, forcing them to censor a controversial editorial, writes an inside story to explain his difficult position.

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1 January 2013

South Korea: Perspectives on Chinese New Net Control Laws

Written by Jae Yeon KIM · Advocacy, Anonymity, Feature, Freedom of Expression, Internet governance, Law, Privacy, Regulation, South Korea, Southeast Asia

On December 28, 2012, the Chinese government approved a set of new net control laws that would make it compulsory for internet intermediaries to enforce users' real name registration. In South Korea, a similar online real name registration policy has been in place since 2005. Let's examine the South Korean experiment and see what lessons Chinese netizens can learn from it.

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30 December 2012

China Introduces New Rules to Tighten Government's Grip Over the Internet

Written by Oiwan Lam · Feature, Freedom of Expression, Internet governance, Law, News, Privacy, Regulation, Southeast Asia, Surveillance

On Friday, December 28, China's legislature approved a new set of rules intended to tighten government control over the Internet, forcing internet and online service providers to require real name registration from all their users. What do Chinese netizens think of the new regulations? What are the implications of the these new measures?

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20 December 2012

China: Government Willingness to Expand Control Over Internet Worries Netizens

Written by Oiwan Lam · Feature, Freedom of Expression, Internet governance, Law, News, Privacy, Regulation, Southeast Asia, Surveillance

A series of articles published by state-run media outlets that justifies online real-name registration and cracking down of cyber crimes makes Chinese netizens worried about the beginning of a new wave of campaign against online dissent.

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1 December 2012

Open Letter: To the Netizens of China, From a Netizen of Pakistan

Written by Sana Saleem · Advocacy, Feature, Freedom of Expression, Pakistan, Regulation, Surveillance, TYPE

In an effort to build solidarity between people who suffer similar restrictions online, Pakistani activists are launching a campaign to reach out to their Chinese counterparts. As the Pakistani government tries to emulate China's policies to control the internet, Sana Saleem, a Pakistani netizen and Global Voices contributor, sends an open letter to Chinese netizens.

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