Internet Censorship

China’s new propaganda chief, Liu Qibao, has laid out an agenda for increased political controls on the Internet.

For years, China’s net nannies overlooked virtual private networks used to jump the Great Firewall. But in recent weeks, even these tools have begun to falter, frustrating tech-savvy Chinese and foreign businesspeople who now struggle to access...

People’s Daily cautions that the Internet is as much a tool of rumor and misinformation as a platform for information sharing. 

Two hundred million Sina Weibo users found Tuesday they could search for Chinese leaders and were free to critiique.

Roughly 400 million Chinese use Weibo, China's Twitter, and often do so to expose corruption.

The journalist who publicized the deaths of five young boys in southwestern China last week, has been forced to take a “vacation.”

A doctored photo of China's top officials doing a popular South Korean dance went viral 'til Chinese censors pulled it down. 

Chinese propaganda boss Liu Yunshan has risen to the country’s top leadership in what could be a perilous sign for online debate.

Web police units directed companies, including U.S. joint ventures, to buy and install hardware to log traffic, block select sites, and connect with police servers.

Party guidance is the "soul” of China's moves to privitize and promote industries that can spread soft power abroad. 

Netizens exposing public servants' taste for expensive timepieces has sparked an online and newspaper crackdown.  On October 9, Wang Keqin (@王克勤), an Economic Observer (@经济观察报) reporter posted on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, that...

By publishing "The One" as an iPhone app, China's superblogger bypassed the State Administration of Radio Film and Television.

On Saturday protestors in dozens of Chinese cities took to the streets to voice their anger at the Japanese government’s nationalization of the Diaoyu Islands (Senkaku Islands in Japanese) in the East China Sea as a flagrant violation of Chinese...

Liu Bo is famous. One of many police officers assigned to quash recent protests over a planned molybdenum copper plant in Shifang, Sichuan province, Bo was famously pictured with a riot shield strapped to his forearm, baton raised, charging at the...

Over the weekend, news broke that three Baidu employees were arrested on suspicion of accepting payoffs in return for deleting posts from Baidu’s online forums. A fourth employee was not arrested, but was fired by Baidu. A Baidu spokeswoman told the...

As the Chinese Internet hurtles headlong into an uncertain future, the country’s legal system struggles to catch up. Pressed for time, the government’s reaction may be to fashion the legal equivalent of a blunt axe, rather than a finely crafted...

 Bloomberg’s news website remains blocked by China’s state censors a full month after it detailed the riches amassed by the family of Xi Jinping, the man who is expected to be the country’s next president. Although periodic outages...