Lu Wei, the former head of the Cyberspace Administration of China, has been sentenced to 14 years in jail on bribery charges. He was also fined 3 million yuan (US$450,000) and will not file an appeal against the verdict. Lu Wei sentenced for bribery Born in 1960, Lu Wei joined the state-backed Xinhua News Agency ...
Last year, Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated that the company had no immediate plans to go ahead with implementing project Dragonfly, a censored search engine, in China. Since he never confirmed that the project was fully shut down, there was always speculation that it was active. And now, a few employees at Google have uncovered ...
WeChat boasts about having more than a billion users on its platform, but like all other online media operating in China, it is subject to strict regulations by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). A research initiative at The University of Hong Kong, WeChatSCOPE, did a study of the most censored topics on WeChat last year. ...
When information about Google’s Project Dragonfly leaked online, there was a huge uproar among Internet rights activists, since Dragonfly would have complied with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) censorship policies and made life harder for the country’s citizens. A new wave of protests has hit Google as the latest reports suggest that the company might ...
When Chinese Internet users discovered that they could not access Microsoft’s Bing search engine webpage, the first thought that came to most people’s minds was that the website had been blocked by state censors. However, the service came back online soon and it was found that the accessibility issue was caused by a technical error ...
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has implemented a strict Internet censorship policy in the country that prevents citizens from accessing foreign websites. As a result, many Chinese citizens have been using VPNs to bypass censorship and access the content they desire. But the CCP has started to heavily crack down on VPN users as it ...
Internet users in China have, for a long time, been blocked from fully expressing opinions and sharing their favorite content due to a strict censorship system implemented by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). But thanks to blockchain technology, Chinese Internet users have currently found a way to overcome Beijing’s censorship. Blockchain and censorship Blockchain refers ...
U.S. tech companies like Google and Facebook are increasingly courting Beijing in a bid to break into the Chinese market. But the cost of entry requires them to accept censorship and be a partner to grievous human rights violations, actions that will have dire consequences even in the United States. Kneeling before censorship Google pulled ...
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