Censorship

Iceland's porn ban proposal sparks row over censorship

2 Mar 2013

Anticensorship campaigners have called on Iceland to ditch its proposals to ban pornography online and in print, labelling the plans "an affront to the basic principles of society".

Former Taiwan premier's Chinese weibo account deleted (updated)

20 Feb 2013

Former Taiwan premier Frank Hsieh Chang-Ting is probably the first heavyweight from the Democratic Progressive Party with his own fan club on the Chinese mainland.

Critique lands Kai-Fu Lee in trouble

20 Feb 2013

This latest brouhaha highlights the risk that people who do business in China face when they speak too candidly in public forums about major official organisations like the People's Daily, the...

Human rights lawyer banned from mainland microblogging sites

20 Feb 2013

Leading human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang has been banned from all microblogging platforms on the mainland after he used them to publicly criticise recently-retired security tsar Zhou Yongkang.

Myanmar government denies it hacked into reporters' e-mails

12 Feb 2013

At least 12 reporters, including a Yangon-based correspondent for The Associated Press, received messages from Google last week when they tried to access their g-mail accounts. They said that...

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Former Google China boss complains of censorship on Twitter

After a “departure” of nearly 150 days, Kai-Fu Lee, former president of Google China and one of most influential celebrities among Chinese netizens, resumed posting original tweets on Twitter,...

Communist Party is giving more power to members working in Beijing internet companies

The Communist Party (mainly through Baidu) is represented by 2,680 Party members in Beijing's many internet companies, and late last year it decided it wants to have control over a lot more -...

Police intimidate another press freedom-supporting celebrity and WeChat gets caught censoring

Singer and actress Annie Yi has sharpened her tone after security police appear to have threatened her regarding support for Southern Weekly, and censors at Sina Weibo continue to delete her...

Southern Weekly standoff has ended and support rallies have tapered off after third day of protests

This week's issue of Southern Weekly reached newspaper stands on schedule, but smaller than usual according to one reader.

Southern Weekly's moment of reckoning

Online protests have grown in intensity over the past few days following a fumbled attempt to censor one of China's most respected newspapers, and are expected to manifest outside the media...

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Shanxi government accused of covering up tunnel explosion

An explosion at a railway tunnel construction site in Linfen city, Shanxi, left at least eight people dead and five injured, the provincial government said on Monday, days after news of the...