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01.05.18China's Social Media Giants Want Their Users to Help out with the Crushing Burden of Censorship
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China’s social media giants are ramping up efforts to get their users to turn in people circulating taboo content, as the Communist Party further tightens its grip on the country’s internet.
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08.07.13
What Will Come out of the Communist Party’s Polling the People Online?
David Wertime:Simon Denyer’s recent article (“In China, Communist Party Takes Unprecedented Step: It Is Listening,” The Washington Post, August 2, 2013) provides a valuable look at some of the ways that Chinese authority mines domestic micro-...
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04.25.13China’s Social Media Gurus Face Off In The Weibo/WeChat Debate
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In China’s rapidly expanding social media sphere, most of the buzz is split between Tencent’s WeChat, a text and voicemail service and Sina Weibo, a microblogging service where users post unfiltered snippets of news in a...
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04.12.13WeChat War Escalates, Becomes Showdown Between Government And Internet Users
Most Internet users believe that China’s three state-owned telecom operators are pushing for the introdction of a fee scheme to popular messaging app WeChat because their core SMS and voice business are threatened by the app.