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China’s Largest Microblog Further Curbs Users With Rating System
IN A CONTINUING effort to suppress free speech on China's largest microblogging service known as Sina Weibo, the company announced that it is developing a credibility rating system to curb users who spread "false online information" that could pose "potential … Continue reading
China Pays Cash for Censorship, Diplomatic Cable Says
PART OF A massive cache of diplomatic cables from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing shows that Chinese regime "search engines apparently regularly accept money from corporate clients to suppress negative news in online search results." The cable was sent in … Continue reading
Investigative Reporter and Team Pushed Out in Newspaper Shake-Up
NO MORE DIGGING: That's the message that Wang Keqin and his team of investigative journalists got on July 20 from their employer, China Economic Times. Wang, a prominent muckraking reporter who exposed such scandals as Shanxi children dying from defective … Continue reading
CCP ‘Fesses Up on the Xinjiang Death Toll; But Was Incident As They Said?
CHINESE STATE MEDIA claimed recently that attackers raided a police station in Xinjiang, killing police, taking hostage, setting fires, and generally making a big mess of things (though counter-narratives have emerged, and as long as news is so tightly controlled … Continue reading
Swimmers to Miss Good Food and Social Media in China
MICHAEL PHELPS SENT out his last tweets on Tuesday evening as he boarded the plane to Shanghai for the 14th FINA World Aquatics Championships. Like some of the other 2,220 professional swimmers from 181 countries who are heading to the … Continue reading
Banner Threatens Petitioners With Hard Labor
KEEP YOUR MOUTH shut. Or, air your grievances and risk being hauled off to a labor camp. That's the message being sent by a series of banners that have gone up in the Chinese county of Zunyi in Guizhou province, announcing that … Continue reading
‘Internet Red Scouts’ To Do Party Propaganda
AN INTERESTING ITEM over at Chinascope: On March 16, 2011, the Shanxi Provincial State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) issued a notice that it would launch an “Internet Red Scout” campaign to protect the image of the Party and the … Continue reading
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Tagged 50 cent party, censorship, communist youth league, propaganda
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Baidu’s Earthquake Politics?
VERY SOON after the Japan earthquake, reports went around about how Chinese netizens were jumping for joy. They were followed by reports noting the ambiguity of the sentiments of Chinese netizens—about how many were sympathetic and even impressed with Japan’s … Continue reading
Facebook and Baidu in Discussion After Baidu Exec Visits US
Image shows Zuckerberg visiting China on Dec. 20 last year. BAIDU AND FACEBOOK are in discussions after a Baidu executive visited the U.S. The news was first posted on Sina Tech, and later circulated and embellished on Twitter and Sina … Continue reading
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Tagged baidu, censorship, facebook, joint venture
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