Hong Kong Protest Song Played Again Instead of CCP Anthem at Asian Classic Powerlifting Championship
After the handover of Hong Kong, CCP used the March of the Volunteers as the Hong Kong anthem, but after the 2019 anti-extradition social movement, Hong Kong pro-democracy people composed a protest song, “Glory to Hong Kong.” It was then widely circulated online and regarded as the “Hong Kong national anthem.”
TikTok Monitors Keystrokes of Users in iOS App’s Browser: Expert
Klause said the risk occurs when users open links while using an iOS app, such as TikTok, and view the rendered webpage inside that app instead of opening the link with a third-party browser, such as Safari or Chrome.
Google Reveals Details of Three Instances It Removed Content at Request of Hong Kong Police
One requested the removal of a Google Drive account that the police said “was being used for blackmail,” the Google report said. “It contained mostly intimate images of women, as well as some images that appeared to be news photographs of political activities.”
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.
Hong Kong Moves to Ease Fears as Industry Group says Facebook, Google, Twitter May Pull Out of City Over New Privacy Law
The Asia Internet Coalition (AIC), an industry group with members — including Google, Facebook and Twitter — warned the Hong Kong government in a letter that the companies might stop offering services in the city if their employees were made criminally liable for their users’ doxxing behaviour.
Facebook Removes Fake Chinese Accounts That Posted on US Election, Spread Beijing Propaganda
On the upcoming U.S. election, these accounts posted content both “in support of and against presidential candidates Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, and Donald Trump,” Gleicher stated.
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 […]