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Beijing Cinephiles Cross Their Fingers For Independent Film Festival
Organizers of this year's Beijing Independent Film Festival are hoping the event will be able to proceed after being told film screenings weren't allowed on the first day. more »Arts &...
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Luxury hotels leap over Great Firewall to access Twitter and Facebook
Guests at some luxury hotels in Shanghai, Beijing and other major cities have been surprised to access Facebook and Twitter - the social media services banned on the mainland for years. They connect to...
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The death of independent cinema in China
After wrangling with the authorities all day yesterday, on what was supposed to be the opening of the festival on the rural outskirts of Beijing, this year's Beijing Independent Film Festival has been...
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U of T Google fellow tracks China's censored words
Hairy bacon, Canadian French and leopard print: all terms axed from the online vocabulary in China, according to a new book published by a University of Toronto researcher. A Google Fellow at the...
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Provincial courts turn to social media to knock Beijing’s anti-rumor campaign
Several recent posts on Weibo by legal organs revealed that tensions between China’s central government and its local ones are as manifest today as during historical times. Many netizens called the...
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“Reverse-Engineering Chinese Censorship”
“This is an enormous government program designed to suppress the free flow of information,” King said in a presentation entitled “Reverse-Engineering Chinese Censorship.” “But since it’s so large, it...
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Chinese netizens strike back amid Internet crackdown
As China’s Internet crackdown intensifies, netizens decided to fight back, not by pushing for more freedom of speech, but by mobilizing bottom-up anti-corruption investigations. more...
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EXCLUSIVE: China to lift ban on Facebook - but only within Shanghai...
Beijing has made the landmark decision to lift a ban on internet access within the Shanghai Free-trade Zone to foreign websites considered politically sensitive by the Chinese government, including...
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Censorship and Creativity on China's 6-4th National Day
China's 64th National Day provided bloggers an opportunity to draw attention to a heavily censored date. more »China NewscensorshipWeiboholidaysTiananmen 1989creativity
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You can sidestep China's censorship and decrypt Sina Weibo posts with this...
Chinese authorities censor discussions regularly on Twitter-like microblogging platform Sina Weibo, and one of the ways it does so is to show a message saying "Sorry, this weibo is not suitable for the...
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In display of unabashed badassery, Google to roll out anti-censorship services
Google is developing a set of privacy, anti-censorship, and anti-cyberattack tools for use globally, and especially those "parts of the world [where] your connection [isn't] safe, secure, and private."...
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The Chinese government has rejected the visa application of a veteran American journalist who had been waiting eight months to begin a new reporting job in China for Thomson Reuters, the company said....
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Bloomberg News Is Said to Curb Articles That Might Anger China
The decision came in an early evening call to four journalists huddled in a Hong Kong conference room. On the line 12 time zones away in New York was their boss, Matthew Winkler, the longtime editor in...
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Bloomberg boots 'China leak' scribe
Bloomberg L.P. has put a reporter suspected of leaking news about a controversial China story on unpaid leave, The Post has learned. Michael Forsthye was escorted from Bloomberg's Hong Kong office on...
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Mirror. Mirror on the Firewall
Jumping the Great Firewall and circumnavigating online censorship in China is not a complicated task. You just need to be aware of what you say and how you say it. Alternatively, you can just go-ahead...
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ChinaPornWars.Com
Twitter and Facebook? Banned, no problem. Amnesty International and The New York Times? Completely blocked. Youtube and WordPress? Easy-peasy-lemonsqueezy. Porn.com and Big Butts Like it Big? Not so...
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The Thorny Challenge of Covering China
How do major American news organizations write about a Communist country with the world's second-largest economy -- a country that doesn't believe in press rights and that punishes tough-minded...
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Will China expel foreign journalists?
Is China preparing for a mass expulsion of foreign correspondents? Even to ask the question sounds faintly ridiculous. Surely not. Not in this day of the internet and global communications. Not the...
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A look at the China visa story - foreign journalists facing exile oh no! - from a couple angles. Self-censorship, context of true dissidence, and eventually, back to what foreign reporters stand for....
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The internet: From Weibo to WeChat
WeChat, or Weixin in Chinese, is known mostly for private chatting and innocuous photo-sharing among small circles of friends. With more than 270m active users, it has become the star product from...
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