Software Engineer, Fiancee Sentenced to Prison for Developing Application to Break China’s Internet Censorship
He and Zhang had developed software called oGate that allows Chinese people to freely access websites and information available outside of China but which are blocked by the GFW and otherwise unavailable inside China.
China Steps up Social Media Censorship, ‘Upgrades’ Great Firewall Ahead of Congress
Former 1989 Tiananmen protest leader Wang Dan, said via Twitter that WeChat appeared to be preventing blocked users from outside China from chatting privately with users back home, a move which he termed “a new firewall.”
WeChat Warns Users Their Likes, Comments, and Histories are Being Sent to China
Launched by Tencent in 2011, WeChat now has more than 1.1 billion users, second only to WhatsApp and Facebook, but the company keeps users behind China’s complex system of blocks, filters, and human censorship known as the Great Firewall, even when they are physically in another country.
No One Will Be Spared in a Corrupt and Heartless Communist Regime
The “zero-COVID” is not only a COVID prevention and control policy but also a tool to achieve the CCP’s strategic goal to defeat the U.S. and the rest of the Western world. Since it is for a strategic purpose, the Chinese people have no choice but to endure the hardship of “the great Party.”
Shanghai Police Detain Zero-COVID Critic Who Called on Local Leader to Resign
“I have to go out, so I have to do a PCR test every day … but the shops are basically all closed, so I can’t spend any money. There aren’t many people out on the street, and the buses seem to have stopped and there’s no plane travel.”
The Most Desperate Response to the COVID-19 Lockdown in China: ‘We Are the Last Generation.’
The threat of multi-generational punishment was commonly used during Mao Zedong’s era. In this period, when a person was labelled a rightist or capitalist, their offspring would have to wear a label identifying them as an “enemy of the people” and they would face political and social ostracism.
Censorship of Hollywood Blockbuster Films Intensifies in China
Self-censorship is getting worse, Fenton said. Some studios even worry that China will punish them for leaving objectionable scenes in film versions for audiences outside China.
China Deploys Censorship, Police Threats to Maintain Control Over ‘Zero-COVID’ Narrative
ite this and the massive impact to the economy, Shanghai re-tightened its lockdowns after a brief relaxation in measures, due to the continued influx in COVID-19 cases. The city said it will stay under lockdown until the virus has been “completely eradicated from all its neighborhoods.”
Why Chinese Technology Companies Are Partners in Crimes Against Humanity
Huawei has done far more in the persecution of Falun Dafa than simply policing its own employees. It has developed tools that should be of concern to everyone around the world, not just the practitioners of Falun Dafa in China.
Chinese Netizens Identify the Weibo Supervisor System as a Source of Arbitrary Censorship
An IT blogger, whose posts in his commercial account had been hidden from public view recently, believed that the Weibo supervisor system was the cause of his problem: “I only realized that there is a report target in the Weibo supervisor system after the Ji Haoyang incident. That’s why since June 28, my Weibo, which has been open for more than ten years, has been regularly hidden from public view. I filed complaints to the Sina customer service but it did not solve my problem. Please take a look, which of my posts are harmful? Which Weibo supervisor ‘shot’ me? I am a paying customer with a very good social credit record — Sina Weibo, how can you treat your customers like this? “