That your paranoia affects my ability to check Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Danwei, the CDT, etc. etc. whenever I'm in China, I can handle. But this kind of "principle" affects everyone in the world. It is in no way a Chinese internal affair, and should not be treated as such (just as it shouldn't be...
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There’s been quite a bit of news and discussion of late as the government continues to tighten the screws of the internet (a good overview is Rebecca MacKinnon’s newest post). The blocking of Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites has given way to wider blocks on a variety of portals, including bittorrent sites...
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The following is a translation of most of this post (we skipped the last paragraph) from Woeser’s blog (which is currently blocked in China). Translation After the 7/5 Urumqi incident, Minzu University Associate Professor and head of a Uyghur website Ilham Toxti was placed under house arrest, and soon after more...
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Popular Chinese blogger on technology and the internet Isaac Mao‘s site has been blocked. Chock up another victim for the GFW, and another loss for people inside China without VPNs.
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...Now I'm without hope for effective treatment or just compensation, my freedom of movement has been constrained; the situation is that there's no way for me to leave the county!
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Last we knew, when the Chinese government wanted to demolish houses, it had ways of getting the residents to submit. It’s hard to combat that, but if recent events are any indication, some citizens have adopted a new resistance technique: fire. First there’s the case of Pan Yong, a woman in Shanghai who, to...
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Wang Keqin’s blog has a very long accounting (based on this original story) of how the rebuilding is going in earthquake-affected areas like Mianyang. Unfortunately, it seems some of the new building materials are just as shoddy, or even worse, then the ones destroyed in the 5/12 earthquake. His post is too long to...
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Here’s a quick visual update on Ai Weiwei’s medical case. For those who don’t know, Ai was beaten by police while attending the trial of Tan Zuoren, another very public crusader for justice for the children who died because of shoddy building in the 5/12 earthquake. Around a month later, in Germany, he developed...
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The following is a translation of this post on Ai Weiwei’s blog by one of his volunteers. The investigation, it seems, is ongoing, as is the harassment of investigators. And, as one might expect, the investigators are getting tired and, if Keke is any indication, beginning to snap a little. Muyu Diary The weather...
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Rumor has it this site has recently been unblocked! All glory to the hypnotoad! Still, many other sites have been less lucky. Facebook, Twitter, and other “web 2.0″ sites remain hidden behind the Great Firewall. Recently, some Chinese intellectuals published a “Declaration of Internet Human Rights”. As usual, CDT beat us to the story,...
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