Chinese Communist Party Drafts New Rules on Usage of Facial Recognition Technology
Most alarming are claims that Beijing is using the technology to monitor race, ethnicity and religious backgrounds, which threatens certain minority groups like the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region.
Badiucao – the Interview: ‘I Think We Are Witnessing the Dying of Hong Kong’
Hong Kong Free Press Editor’s note: This interview with Chinese cartoonist Badiucao was conducted and written last week before his debut solo exhibition was canceled on Friday amid safety fears. Artist-provocateur Badiucao might have penned some of the most daring cartoons deriding China’s authoritarian and censorial regime, but he considers himself a coward. This is an […]
China’s New Internet Industry Group Signals Growing Party Involvement In Private Firms
David Bandurski | Hong Kong Free Press In a ceremony in Beijing last week, the director of the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), Xu Lin, presided over the inauguration of the China Federation of Internet Societies (CFIS), a broad internet industry grouping whose stated purpose is to “promote the development of Party organizations in the industry.” The federation’s establishment […]
China Detains Former Deputy Internet Czar Amid Graft Probe
Yang Fan | Radio Free Asia The ruling Chinese Communist Party is investigating its former deputy propaganda czar on suspicion of “disciplinary violations,” a term generally used to mean corruption, official media reported. Lu Wei, once dubbed the “father” of the Great Firewall of government internet censorship, is being investigated by the party’s Central Commission […]
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 […]
A Gap in the Great Firewall: Mobile Apps
Fan Yu | Epoch Times China’s “Great Firewall” has been central to the Communist Party’s strategy of controlling what residents can and cannot browse online. Websites ranging from search engines, discussion forums, to online media are closely monitored and censored. Up until now however, mobile apps occupied a corner that has largely been under the radar […]
China Tells Websites to Monitor Content 24/7 in Fresh Clampdown
Yang Fan | Radio Free Asia China’s powerful internet regulator has further ratcheted up controls on what the country’s 700 million netizens can see online, requiring round-the-clock monitoring of all live-streaming and holding editorial chiefs personally responsible for “problem” content. New rules issued by the powerful internet regulation agency, the Cyberspace Administration, require editors-in-chief to […]
RSF calls for release of two Chinese citizen journalists
Reporters without borders Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns a growing crackdown on citizen journalism and calls for the release of two citizen journalists, Lu Yuyu and Li Tingyu, who were arrested on 15 June while investigating labor protests. They are accused of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” Lu and Li were finally able to see […]
China's President Calls For More Borders, State Control in Cyberspace
<!–[CDATA[ Yang Fan | Radio Free Asia Chinese Internet users on Wednesday hit out at a “global” Internet conference hosted by the ruling Chinese Communist Party, as their president Xi Jinping called for more control by governments over cyberspace. “Freedom and order are both necessary in cyberspace,” Xi told the conference in the eastern province […]