China

21 November 2011

China: Father of GFW on Internet Sovereignty

Written by Oiwan Lam · Internet governance

Fang Binxing, known as the “father of China’s Great Firewall,” recently recently made a speech on “The future of Internet security” which justifies the development of national network or national...

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14 November 2011

China: Sina Weibo's Warning to DeutscheWelle

Written by Oiwan Lam · regulation

DeutscheWelle's official Sina Weibo account has been forced to “re-incarnate” again in November 13, 2011. The deletion of user account is a punishment mechanism by Sina Weibo to those who...

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20 August 2011

China: State media's anti-rumor campaign

Written by Oiwan Lam · Feature

The state controlled national television China Central Television (CCTV) launched an attack on social media platform, such as Sina Weiblog [a micro-blogging platform similar to Twitter] earlier in August 2011...

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28 July 2011

China: Wi-Fi monitoring system in Beijing cafes and bars

Written by Oiwan Lam · regulation

According to Mingpao Daily, Beijing Police has issued a notice to all the cafes and bars which provide Wi-Fi access to their customers to install a RMB20,000 monitoring system. Upon...

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7 July 2011

China: Swedish student's passport confiscated for flash mob call

Written by Oiwan Lam · activism, Arrest and Harassment

A Swedish student, Sven Englund studying in Shanghai Fudan University was summoned by Shanghai police for writing a letter to the Chinese President Hu Jintao in his blog. His passport...

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19 June 2011

China: Attack on a #netfreedom Blogger

Written by John Kennedy · Arrest and Harassment

For all the talk of Internet freedom, little of it takes into account the bleaker reality of inhabiting Chinese cyberspace. Influential tech blogger William Long addresses this with a post criticizing the destructive bent to China's hacker communities, which then brought on a multi-front attack against Long.

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7 June 2011

China: Netizen sentenced to one year labour education for mocking at leader

Written by Oiwan Lam · Arrest and Harassment

According to local media report, a Chongqing city resident Fang Hung was sentenced to labour education camp in April 2011 for posting a microblog that mocked at the city's party leader Bo Xilai, the son of a Chinese Communist Party revolutionary elder Bo Yibo.

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