Tag Archive | China
Political Censorship: China Faces Ongoing Tension in Restive Xinjiang
Members of the Uyghur ethnic minority walk past a Muslim mosque near the Erduoqiao neighborhood in Urumqi in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. China’s far northwestern Xinjiang region is settled primarily by the Muslim Uighurs who have long chafed under Chinese rule. In recent years, there have been episodes of violence between locals and [...]
Internet Censorship: China Clamps Down on Microblogs
New microblog rules requiring account holders to use their real names are being rolled out in two other major Chinese cities following the first clampdown on Twitter-like services in Beijing earlier this month. Seven major websites in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, in the southern province of Guangdong, began on Thursday to ask new users to register [...]
Media Censorship: Unrest Spreads In Southern China
Residents protest a power plant they say is polluting their village in China’s Guangdong province. Thousands of angry residents surrounded government buildings and blocked roads in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Tuesday in protest at a coal-fired power plant they say is polluting the environment, officials and protesters said. Police clashed with large [...]
Internet Censorship: Chinese Netizens Jailed for Wedding Video
Chinese authorities move quickly to discourage ‘negative’ postings online. Two men who posted a video of columns of police they said were a guard of honor at a wedding party in the central province of Hunan have been sentenced to five days’ administrative detention for using the Internet to spread rumors and “disturb public order.” [...]
China Ramps Up Online Censorship Efforts As US Congress Gives Them Perfect Cover
By Mike Masnick As the US seeks to set up its own “Great Firewall” by copying Chinese censorship techniques in the twin bills SOPA and PROTECT IP (PIPA), it appears that China is doing exactly as you would expect when you give a government the tools to censor the internet: it keeps ramping up the [...]
Music Censorship: North Korea Crackdown on ‘Thumb Drives’
North Koreans find new ways to access illicit South Korean pop culture. North Korean authorities are stepping up a crackdown on portable media devices in an attempt to block the spread of “Korean Wave” culture from the South, North Korean sources say. With cell phones and video players becoming more popular in the North, South [...]
Censorship: Hong Kong Silent on Editor Visa
Delay raises fears of growing Chinese control of Hong Kong press freedoms. An overseas rights group has called on the Hong Kong government to explain why a cutting-edge Chinese journalist has not been issued with a visa to work in the former British colony. The delay comes after a decision by the territory’s Special Administrative [...]
Censorship: Seven Detained Over Kadeer DVDs
Chinese police say they were in possession of a documentary featuring the exiled Uyghur leader. Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have detained seven ethnic minority Uyghurs after police raids confiscated DVDs featuring exiled Uyghur businesswoman Rebiya Kadeer, whom Beijing has blamed for ethnic violence. Police in the prefectural capital of Gulja [...]
China: Blogger’s Account Canceled
Chinese authorities are making a push to censor netizens who publish ‘sensitive’ content. Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang have frozen the microblogging accounts of an independent journalist and prominent blogger because he published “uncivilized” content on them. Hangzhou-based veteran journalist and blogger Zan Aizong said his accounts on the popular Sina Weibo [...]
Media Censorship: Popular Talk Show Hosts Axed
Two popular television hosts are fired in Hong Kong, raising fears that Chinese censors are exerting undue influence over the island. An elderly man reads a newspaper in a workshop in Hong Kong. Hong Kong’s government broadcaster has said it won’t renew the contracts of two popular current-affairs talk show hosts in 2012, sparking fears [...]
China: Editor Jailed Amid Graft Probe
The case highlights widespread corruption in the Chinese official media. A newspaper vendor at his stall in Beijing. Authorities in the Chinese capital have handed down a 13-year jail term to a former top editor convicted of bribery. Liu Chongzhou, a former editor-in-chief of the China Land and Resources newspaper, was sentenced on Wednesday by [...]
Internet Censorship: Chinese Censors Target Citizen Journalists
Chinese media controls aim to limit ‘fabricated, inaccurate’ reporting. China’s censors have issued strict new rules to journalists in state-run media, warning that those who report information the government deems “inaccurate” could lose their press cards or face jail. But analysts said on Friday that the rules could in fact be aimed at ordinary Chinese [...]
