ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, engaged in censoring anti-China content in Indonesia between 2018 and mid-2020 according to media reports. The exposé comes amid growing American concern about the presence of Chinese apps in the U.S. ByteDance censoring content ByteDance bought the Indonesian news aggregator BaBe in 2018 following a brief ban of ...
YouTube users recently noticed something weird regarding the comment section. Whenever they posted something criticizing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the comments were removed. After this issue garnered media attention, YouTube claimed that such deletions occurred due to an “error” and that it had been rectified. Deleting comments Comments that contained Chinese words equivalent to ...
Russia’s ever-tightening grip on its citizens’ Internet access through censorship has troubling implications for Internet freedom in the United States and other countries that share its decentralized network structure, according to a University of Michigan study. Released a week after a sweeping, additional censorship law called Sovereign RUnet took effect in Russia, the researchers say ...
Apple recently removed an app named HKmap.live from its app store that was being used by Hong Kong protesters to identify places where the police were gathered. The removal, which is said to have been made to avoid facing the wrath of Beijing, has been criticized by pro-democracy activists all across the world. Several American ...
On October 5, the HKmap.Live app was made available on the Apple store. It showed the real-time location of police vehicles, areas where tear gas was fired, the position of special tactical police, where protests should move, and so on. A few days after its launch, HKmap.Live was removed by Apple. Though the official reason ...
Any business operating in China has to comply with the communist government’s stringent censorship policies. Home-grown TikTok is no exception. It censors any content that threatens the communist regime, which includes topics like democracy, Christianity, Tibet, and LGBT. Censoring content “The guidelines divide banned material into two categories: Some content is marked as a ...
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