The Chinese government has confirmed the adoption of a new law that requires all Internet users in the country to use their real names when posting videos on the Internet. China seems a bit tired of tracking internet users criticizing the regime and has therefore introduced a radical step in putting an end to the
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Last week, China suffered a major Internet outage for several hours. Experts question whether it could be due to some hacking or technical problem in the censorship system. On January 21st, more than two-third of Chinese websites were inaccessible and therefore millions of users have been deprived of internet for about 8 hours, according on
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Vietnam applies a new decree which shall sanction comments on social media that criticize the government with prison sentence or the equivalent of a $ 4,740 fine – which represents a non- negligible amount in this country. Writers of such comments that what can be considered as criminal offenses shall lead to a prison sentence.
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After the termination of Skype partnership with Tom Online, Microsoft may have removed all censorship filters for Chinese Internet users. Skype VoIP software has a special version for China, due to government censorship. Skype worked for several years via TOM Online, the Chinese provider. But in 2008, researchers had identified that written conversations via instant
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GreatFire, a group of activists and militants, decided to fight against the Chinese censorship by drilling a hole in the “Great Firewall” , the nickname of the digital divide which are stronger than the Great Wall of China. Filtering performed by the Chinese authorities is actually basic and brutal : the domain names of sites
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The censorship of the incident that happened on October 29th in the famous Tiananmen Square demonstrates the continued commitment of China to eliminate any challenge. But how does China manages to control internet and social networks? … The vehicle that drove into the crowd on Monday 29th and was set into fire under Mao’s portrait
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To understand the Chinese censorship system, Gary King, a professor of political science at Harvard University was tricky to intrude inside. According to the Technology Review website, this professor and two colleagues created a fake Chinese social networking site in order to understand how censorship really operates in this country. We thus discover that the
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The Chinese Internet Center recently announced that the number of Chinese internet users in China rose to 591 million, which implies a 10% increase in one year. Indeed, 40% of the Chinese people use internet in their daily lives. These statistics were published by the China Internet Network Information Center. The Chinese government encourages Internet
Read More...On May 3rd, some 200 writers from all over the world called on China to release imprisoned authors and to respect freedom of expression, saying that censorship limits the cultural development of the country. In a letter made public on the occasion of the International Day for the freedom of the press, these writers have
Read More...Censorship in China is still fierce, with the Internet and social networks being closely monitored. Baiyun students in the province of Guangdong in southern China bear the brunt. The regional government has recently congratulated the University of Baiyun for monitoring online activities and opinions published by students on the web. The website GlobalVoices denounced this
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