Censorship During the Epidemy Demonstrates China Can Afford the Cost of ‘The Death of the Media’
Oiwan Lam | Global Voices The website of Tencent Dajia and its WeChat public account disappeared from the internet Tencent Dajia, (also called We Tencent – 騰訊大家), a popular online media outlet posting high-quality commentary, suddenly vanished from the Chinese internet after it published an article headlined “The 50 days of Wuhan pneumonia: Chinese people […]
‘Burning Books and Burying Scholars’: A book Burning Causes Uproar on Chinese Social Media
Oiwan Lam | Global Voices “The act shows how CCP’s grassroots organs embrace dictatorship” A photo showing staff members of a library in Gansu burning books in front of the building has caused an uproar on Chinese social media since Sunday, 8 December. The image was published on the library website of Zhengyuan county in […]
Beijing Seeks to Control Media Voices Outside China
JENNIFER ZENG | EPOCH TIMES WASHINGTON—As part of its global challenge to democratic freedom, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is making a systematic effort to spread propaganda and to suppress undesirable voices both inside and outside of China, a panel of journalists and experts said at a symposium staged by Freedom House. Discussion of the […]
Censorship of ‘Taiwan’ at U.S. University Sparks Concern Over Chinese Influence
Wang Yun and Wong Lok-to | Radio Free Asia The recent removal by a Beijing-backed language school embedded on a university campus in the United States of a reference to the democratic island of Taiwan has sparked concern that Chinese political censorship is compromising freedom of speech far beyond its borders. Journalism award winner Bethany […]
China Remains World’s Biggest Prison For Journalists, While Beijing Exports Media Censorship Overseas
Paul Huang | Epoch Times China continues to be among the world’s worst abuser of press freedom and jails the largest number of journalists in its prisons, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on April 25. In addition, the press freedom watchdog warned that authoritarian countries across Asia seeking to further consolidate their rule are […]
Lantern Festival Riddles Outwit and Enrage Chinese Censorship Authorities
Oiwam Lam | Global Voices “I love three things in this world. Sun, Moon and You. Sun for morning, Moon for night, And you forever.” The above poem was circulated on one of my WeChat groups during the Lantern Festival on March 2, 2018, and was immediately viewed as a Lantern Riddle for people to […]
A New Generation of Journalists in China Face The Same Censorship, Despite New Technology
Paul Huang | Epoch Times The regime quickly adapted to changes in the media environment, maintaining strict control Despite the emergence of a new generation of talented reporters and a radical transformation into the digital age, mass media in China across the board are still firmly controlled and censored by the Chinese regime, according to […]
China ‘Worst Abuser of Internet Freedom’ Worldwide: Freedom House Report
Hai Nan and Zhu Dan | Radio Free Asia China was the year’s worst abuser of internet freedom for the third year running in 2017, according to an annual report from U.S.-based freedom-of-speech watchdog Freedom House. As the ruling Chinese Communist Party held its 19th Party Congress, enshrining the “new era” ideology of President Xi […]
China Again Expands Censorship to Overseas Academic Publishers
Gao Feng and Wu Yitong | Radio Free Asia One of the world’s largest academic publishers has confirmed that it blocked access to some 1,000 journal articles to Chinese internet users because they contained banned keywords relating to political topics such as Tibet, Taiwan, or the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Springer Nature, which publishes Nature and […]
China’s Great Firewall Grows Higher Ahead of Party Congress
Yang Fan and Gao Feng | Radio Free Asia China’s internet censors appear to be upping their game when it comes to stopping the country’s more than 730 million netizens from bypassing the Great Firewall, online activists told RFA on Thursday. As the ruling Chinese Communist Party carries out a nationwide security clampdown ahead of […]