Is the Shutting Down of Chinese LinkedIn the End of Foreign Big Tech’s Engagement With China?

Last month, a number of U.S journalists including Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Melissa Chan and Greg Bruno found their profiles blocked in the LinkedIn Chinese platform. When Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian reached out to LinkedIn, the platform administrator advised her to “update the Summary section” of her profile. The investigative reporter mocked the company for its “free self-censorship consulting service”:

Twitter Censors New Zealand Scholar for Mocking Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party

Last year, Twitter had appointed Fei-Fei Li, a pro-CCP expert on Artificial Intelligence (AI), as an independent director on its board. The decision attracted widespread criticism because Li has deep ties to the communist party and was instrumental in establishing Google’s AI lab in China. Wong Longmeng, a commentator from France, stated that hiring Li was like hiring a fox to guard the hen-coop.

Press Freedom Continues to Face Setbacks in China

Bill Hide and Joyce Huang | Voice of America BEIJING — The hope for press freedom has long been an elusive aspiration in China, and the outlook has become increasingly dire under the tight rule of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Over the past year, Chinese authorities have stepped up the use of technology and intensified efforts […]

CCP Tracking Private Messages on Chinese Social Media

Vision Times The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been using an online surveillance program to track private messages of users on apps like WeChat and QQ, a data leak shows. The leak was discovered by Victor Gevers, a security researcher who works for the non-profit GDI foundation that campaigns for a free Internet. Tracking social […]

The spread of China’s State-Controlled Internet Model Raises Concerns

FRANK FANG  | EPOCH TIMES China’s censorship-enabled internet model is spreading beyond its borders, at a time when more and more people in the world are gaining access to the internet, according to a new report. Michael Pisa, a policy fellow at the Washington-based think tank Center for Global Development (CGD) and former senior adviser to […]