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UK revokes Chinese state-owned TV channel of broadcast licence | ITV News
The TV regulator launched an investigation into China Global Television Network (CGTN) last year.
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Citing 'censorship' concerns, North Idaho internet provider blocks Facebook, Twitter
The actions of Your T1 WIFI, which provides internet services to North Idaho and the Spokane area, could violate Washington state's Net Neutrality law.
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Zoom employee secretly censored users on behalf of China, alleges DOJ
A senior Zoom employee falsely accused users of supporting terrorism and distributing child sexual abuse material in an effort to stop them from talking about the Tiananmen Square massacre, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Popular Pirate Sites 'Disappear' From DuckDuckGo's Top Search Results
After popular pirate sites started disappearing from Google's top results, the same now appears to be happening at DuckDuckGo as well.
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Exclusive: China preparing an antitrust investigation into Google - sources
China is preparing to launch an antitrust probe into Alphabet Inc's GOOGL.O Google, looking into allegations it has leveraged the dominance of its Android mobile operating system to stifle competition, two people familiar with the matter said.
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How China Impacts the Future of Gaming
China banned videogames for almost 15 years, but how dies Chinese video game censorship impact the gaming market? The Chinese impact on the international gaming market is huge and leads the direction of the future of gaming. China still bans video games and this is for certain reasons!
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WeChat and TikTok taking China censorship global, study says
The most popular Chinese-owned social media from WeChat to TikTok are increasingly censoring content in the U.S. and elsewhere, taking practices honed for years behind the Great Firewall to an international audience.
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In China, the ‘Great Firewall’ Is Changing a Generation
Once it seemed inevitable that the internet would create a more open society. Now it’s fostering young nationalists.
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Covid Is Accelerating a Global Censorship Crisis
More than180,000 people in the United States have now died from the coronavirus, a horrifying loss of human life that stands in profound contrast to the pandemic’s duration and severity in the rest of the world. Covid-19 “brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees,” with everything from the Trump administration’s destructive response to an underfunded public health system to systemic racism and white supremacy woven throughout.
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Chinese government releases new guidelines for science fiction
The China Film Administration, which is part of China’s Central Publicity Department and the China Association for Science and Technology, has released a new official set of moviemaking guidelines …
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China is now blocking all encrypted HTTPS traffic that uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI
The block was put in place at the end of July and is enforced via China's Great Firewall internet surveillance technology.
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Apple removes thousands of game apps from China store
Apple Inc removed 29,800 apps from its Chinese app store on Saturday, including more than 26,000 games, according to data from research firm Qimai. The takedowns come amid a crackdown on unlicensed games by Chinese authorities. Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Red capital: how Chinese companies wield political influence in Hong Kong
The US removal of Hong Kong's special economic status is partly a response to China's growing use of businesses there to exert its power.
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In China's film industry, the Communist Party is in the director's chair
Actors who prove effective ambassadors for the People’s Republic may see their careers rise, while those who test Chinese authorities can face negative consequences, even if they are stars.
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Harper's Gives Prestigious Platform To Famous Writers So They Can Whine About Being Silenced
There's a slightly bizarre Letter on Justice and Open Debate that Harper's Magazine is publishing, signed by a long list of famous people (many of whom I respect, and plenty of whom I think are terribly entitled wannabe...
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YouTube has been auto-deleting comments about China's government-sponsored hacker army, but says it is 'an error in our enforcement systems'
YouTube reps acknowledged the deletions and said it was due to an error in the automated systems it uses to moderate the video service.
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Inside the Early Days of China’s Coronavirus Coverup
The dawn of a pandemic—as seen through the news and social media posts that vanished from China’s internet.
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The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis is Here
Earlier this week, Atlantic magazine – fast becoming the favored media outlet for self-styled intellectual elites of the Aspen Institute type – ran an in-depth article of the problems free speech pose to American society in the coronavirus era.
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Bloomberg News Killed Investigation, Fired Reporter, Then Sought To Silence His Wife
Michael Bloomberg's short-lived presidential bid reignited a long-simmering dispute over the widespread use of nondisclosure agreements at American corporations — especially at his own. His namesake company, Bloomberg LP, has used nondisclosure agreements broadly to conceal allegations and silence complaints from employees of sexual harassment or a hostile work environment, as published reports have documented.
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"Animal Crossing" Seemingly Taken Offline in China
The wildly popular game Animal Crossing: New Horizons reportedly disappeared off Chinese ecommerce platforms on Friday, seemingly after authorities caught wind that Hong Kong activists were organizing in-game protests. For many under lockdown, the game has provided a means of escape, allowing users to customize private islands and visit each other.
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