China
ONI Blog: Tibet, China and the information gaps between
Despite the approaching Olympic Games, it should come as no surprise to most observers of China that information about the spreading protests in Tibet (Autonomous Region) and other far western provinces is subject to vigorous censorship. YouTube enables certain actors actors to...
ONI Blog: Lawsuit initiated over shutdown of Chinese BBS on Hepatitis-B Virus
On November 20, 2007, the Beijing Communications Administration (BCA) ordered the closure of a popular Internet forum on the Hepatitis B virus (HBV). The Hepatitis B Camp Network of China [?????? ] (http://hbvhbv.com/) was started in September 2001 and has...
ONI Blog: A Chinese rebellion against Internet censorship?
As severe weather conditions have paralyzed great swaths of China’s physical infrastructure in some of the worst timing imaginable, the New York Times has published a story about “increasingly determined social resistance” in Chinese cyberspace. According to Howard French, once...
ONI Blog: Update: China incentivizes self-censorship in regulation of online video
ONI has completed an unofficial English translation of China's new regulations of online audio/video, available here....
ONI Blog: China incentivizes self-censorship in regulation of online video
The latest ‘innovation’ in Chinese legal regulation of the Internet targets online audio and video content. Effective January 31, 2008, the Provisions for the Management of Internet Audio and Video Programming Services build on previous Measures issued by broadcast media...
ONI Blog: China, and blogs on Filtering
Last week, Chinese blogger Michael Anti gave a talk at the Berkman Center on the world of political activism in China, and its (non) use of Web 2.0 tools. According to Anti, any service that requires a centralized server has limited...
ONI Blog: Blogs on Filtering
Nart Villeneuve takes a look at a recent article discussing U.S. involvement in Burma's recent protests
Rebecca MacKinnon has a wonderful post about the responsibilities placed on private businesses in China
Ethan Zuckerman responds to Rebecca's post
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- Posted on 23/Oct/2007; tagged in China
ONI Blog: China: Achtung! for the Party Congress
As reports continue to emerge about a massive tightening of media and Internet expression in the lead-up to the 17th Chinese Communist Party Congress, and despite efforts to keep speculative whispering in Beijing (along with negative reporting) to a...
- Posted on 19/Sep/2007; tagged in China
ONI Blog: Chinese lawyers protest censorship of blog posts
Four Chinese lawyers have submitted an open letter to Sina.com, protesting the deletion of blog posts by portal administrators and calling for an explanation. Rebecca MacKinnon has posted the letter (translated by Roland Soong) and her commentary on...
ONI Blog: China's Hu vows to 'purify' Internet (Reuters)
BEIJING (Reuters) - "Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has vowed to 'purify' the Internet, state media reported on [Jan. 24], describing a top-level meeting that discussed ways to master the country's sprawling, unruly online population."
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