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 […]

China Steps Up Uyghur Crackdown During Ramadan

Rikar Hussein  |  Voice of America The government in China is further tightening its grip on minority groups in the Uyghur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan as it continues to use its deradicalization campaign to suppress local residents, Uighur leaders and human rights activists warn. China started a campaign […]

‘Disagree’ Banned on China Social Media

William Ide and Joyce Huang  |  Voice of America BEIJING — Authorities in China have launched an intense crackdown on online commentary in the wake of a proposal by the country’s communist party leaders to amend the constitution and scrap a two-term limit on the president’s time in office.A wide range of phrases in Chinese have been banned […]

Chinese Leader’s Call for Democracy, Justice, Clashes With Crackdown on Dissent

William Ide and Joyce Huang  |  Voice of America China’s leader Xi Jinping has pledged to make the Communist Party more responsive to public demands and to calls for democracy, fairness, and justice in a lengthy address to the 19th Party Congress. But at least three cases involving the harassment of lawyers this week and […]

Convincing to Quit the CCP on Social Media

Xinyi  |  Minghui I stepped into Falun Gong cultivation practice in 2012. During the Conference activities in New York on May 2016, I watched on Facebook the live broadcast of the parade celebrating World Falun Dafa Day. Many practitioners and Tuidang volunteers commented positively online, but there were also some Internet users from mainland China […]

Wanna Share News on Social Media? With China’s New Rules, You’ll Need a Permit For That.

Oiwan Lam  |  Global Voices China’s State Council Information Office released updated regulations on 2 May that will restrict individuals from writing and reading news stories from individual blogs and social media, including Sina Weibo and WeChat. Under the news rules, users will be required to obtain a permit before writing or distributing news on social […]

China in Final Push to Eliminate Anonymous Phone Users

Yang Fan  |  Radio Free Asia China will begin a fresh attempt to enforce real-name-only mobile phone use starting Feb. 1, according to the country’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Under regulations first issued in 2013, anyone signing a new phone contract or buying an SIM card must produce a valid identity document and […]

UN Social Media Posts Removed in China After Backlash

William Ide  |  Voice of America BEIJING — A massive backlash on social media in China has apparently led the United Nations to take down two Lunar New Year posts on refugees and poverty from their Chinese Weibo social media site. The microblog messages appeared to be aimed at boosting awareness, but many took the posts […]

Chinese Dissent in an Age of Social Media

Matthew Robertson  |  Epoch Times Democracy activist Li Hongkuan ran a popular email newsletter in the 1990s, and now uses the app WeChat to the same end NEW YORK—Nearly 20 years ago, newspaper headlines were wondering whether the internet was going to free China. Exhibit A was Li Hongkuan, a highly self-confident and fast-talking democracy activist […]