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Zhejiang Government Publicly Shames People for Scaling the Great Firewall
Netizens recently noticed that since July, the Zhejiang Provincial Government Services website has been publicly posting “resolutions on administrative punishment” for individuals and organizations...
View ArticleArrests At Video Company Threaten Beloved Subtitling Groups’ Uncensored Content
Volunteer subtitle groups that translate uncensored American television shows and films are highly popular in China. Yet the future of one of the largest and most popular subtitling sites, Renren...
View ArticleAnother Brick In the Wall: Music Site’s Blocking Further Closes Off Chinese...
Nobody was surprised when Clubhouse, the viral app on which Chinese users shared their unfiltered views with global audiences, was blocked in China. Users had widely anticipated that Clubhouse would...
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From CDT Chinese: Top Ten Memes of 2021
Editor’s Note: As we enter 2022, CDT has compiled a special series of features for our readers, offering a look back at the people, events, controversies, memes and sensitive words that defined the...
View ArticleWord(s) of the Week: “Chicken, You Are So Beautiful!” (鸡你太美, jī nĭ tài měi )
People’s Daily Online breathed new life into a stale meme this past week with an opinion piece titled “We Cannot Let Vulgar Online Slang Poison Our Children” that railed against online slang and...
View ArticleMan Imprisoned For “Inciting Subversion” Believed to be Legendary Chinese...
For 12 years, the anonymous Chinese blogger program-think eluded authorities while writing on the most sensitive of topics: the Great Firewall, the Tiananmen Massacre, high-level factional politics,...
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Internet Police Detain Man Who Posted Video of Snow
Snow? In Hebei? In May? Don’t even joke about it.A young man in a small city in southern Hebei was called in for talks by the local internet police after posting a video of snowfall to Douyin tagged...
View ArticleSecond Anniversary of Pioneering Blogger Program-Think’s Detention Passes
May 10, 2023 marked the second anniversary of the detention of program-think (Biānchéng suíxiǎng, 编程随想), an incisive and influential blogger who for twelve years managed to maintain his anonymity...
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How a Chinese Company Censors Its Own Answer to ChatGPT
Today, Weibo censors deleted a photograph of a flowchart demonstrating how security software giant Qihoo 360 censors its generative artificial intelligence (AI) product. During a June 13 launch event...
View ArticleAmid Tightening Controls and “Rumor” Crackdown, People’s Daily Touts...
China’s Ministry of Public Security has initiated a new campaign against online rumors following Xi Jinping’s call for a “security barrier” around the Chinese internet. At The South China Morning...
View ArticleChengde Seizes Three Years of “Illegal Income” from Programmer Who Used VPN...
A Weibo user who works as a computer programmer in Chengde, Hebei province, has reported that he was fined and had three years of income confiscated by the local public security bureau for using a...
View ArticleInterview: Perry Link on His New Book, “I Have No Enemies: The Life and...
Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017) is a monumental figure in modern Chinese history. The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate died in custody in a Shenyang hospital in 2017 while being treated for liver cancer. A...
View ArticleU.S. Pushback Against TikTok, Global Trends Toward Cyber Sovereignty
TikTok, the popular social media platform owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has been under intense pressure from the U.S. government over the past few weeks. It now faces a Congressional bill,...
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Translation: He Jiayan on the “Accelerating Collapse” of the Chinese Internet
Late last month, a WeChat article about the “collapse of the Chinese-language internet” attracted tens of thousands of views and spurred an enthusiastic response before it was eventually censored....
View ArticleTranslation: Chinese Universities Install Software to Identify and Punish...
A recent WeChat post reveals that some Chinese schools and universities are using special software to identify and punish students who “scale the wall”—that is, circumvent China’s Great Firewall (GFW)...
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