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8 June 2012

Taiwan: Facebook's Deactivation of User Accounts Triggered Free Speech Concerns

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Written by Weiping Li · , ,

Several Taiwanese activists and politicians had their Facebook accounts suspended on June 1st, which triggered Taiwanese users' concern over the limitation on free speech.

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3 December 2011

For Chinese Netizens, SOPA is Another Great Firewall

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Written by Weiping Li · , , , , , ,

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which expected to brought to a vote in U.S. House of Representatives before the end of the year, has spawned sarcastic commentary around the Chinese-language Internet. The Chinese government has long been criticized by Americans for obstructing the free flow of information through a filtering system popularly known as the Great Firewall. Now it is Chinese neitzens' turn to sneer at proposals for a Made-in-America Great Firewall.

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6 July 2011

Taiwan: Blogger subjected to US7,000 compensation for writing food critics

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Written by Oiwan Lam · , ,

A Taiwanese blogger was sentenced to 30 days detention with a 2 year probation and subjected to a TWD200,000 (approximately USD7,000) compensation for writing food critics in her blog. The...

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4 January 2011

Taiwan restricting the press?

Written by Bhumika Ghimire · , ,

Reports suggest Taiwan is restricting the press and Freedom House has downgraded the island nation in its annual global free press report. According to The Christian Science Monitor, “Freedom of speech and...

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8 April 2010

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Taiwan: Police ask for Plurkers’ IPs

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Written by Oiwan Lam · ,

Plurk is the most popular micro-blogging platform in Taiwan. Recently, in March 29 2010, one of its founder Alvin Woon posted a plurk, saying that he had been receiving letter...

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27 April 2009

Info-Rhizome: Report on Independent Media in the Chinese-speaking World

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Written by Oiwan Lam · , , , ,

I have just announced the launching of Info-Rhizome: Report on Independent Media in the Chinese-speaking World at interlocals.net. Individual can download free copy from here. The book is consisted of...

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23 January 2009

LGBT content unreasonably filtered away in Hong Kong

Written by Oiwan Lam · ,

A LGBT concern group, leslovestudy, conduced a research in Hong Kong [Chinese pdf] in November, 2008 on 5 major commercial and public filters in Hong Kong. The NGO found out...

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