Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'internet'
New China Search Engine Will Be State-Controlled
By David Barboza | The New York Times13 August 2010 In an apparent bid to extend its control over the Internet and cash in on the rapid growth of mobile devices, China plans to create a government-controlled search engine. The...
China Imprisons 3 Men Who Maintained Uighur Web Sites
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York TimesJuly 30, 2010 Three men accused of "endangering state security" for their roles in maintaining popular Uighur-language Web sites have been sentenced to prison terms of 3 to 10 years, according to exile...
Google to Stop Redirecting Chinese Users to Hong Kong
By Brad Stone and David Barboza | The New York TimesJune 29, 2010 In an effort to appease Beijing as it seeks to renew its license to operate in mainland China, Google plans to stop automatically redirecting Chinese users to...
China defends Internet 'Great Firewall'
By Robert Saiget - AFP - via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJune 08, 2010 China on Tuesday defended its right to censor the Internet, saying it needed to do so to ensure state security, and cautioned other nations to respect how it...
U.S. risks China's ire with decision to fund software maker tied to Falun Gong
By John Pomfret | The Washington PostMay 12, 2010 The State Department has decided to fund a group run mainly by practitioners of Falun Gong, a Buddhist-like sect long considered Enemy No. 1 by the Chinese government, to provide software to...
China jails 3 online activists; many show support
By Gillian Wong - The Associated Press - via Google NewsApril 16, 2010 A Chinese court jailed three people Friday who posted material on the Internet to help an illiterate woman pressure authorities to reinvestigate her daughter's death, one defendant's...
China's Censors Tackle and Trip Over the Internet
Michael Wines, Sharon LaFraniere and Jonathan Ansfield | The New York TimesApril 07, 2010 Type the Chinese characters for "carrot" into Google's search engine here in mainland China, and you will be rewarded not with a list of Internet links,...
Researchers Trace Data Theft to Intruders in China
By John Markoff and David Barboza | The New York TimesApril 05, 2010 Turning the tables on a China-based computer espionage gang, Canadian and United States computer security researchers have monitored a spying operation for the past eight months, observing...
Journalists' E-Mails Hacked in China
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York Times30 March 2010 In what appears to be a coordinated assault, the e-mail accounts of more than a dozen rights activists, academics and journalists who cover China have been compromised by unknown intruders....
Google Shuts China Site in Dispute Over Censorship
By Miguel Helft and David Barboza | The New York TimesMarch 22/23, 2010 Just over two months after threatening to leave China because of censorship and intrusions from hackers, Goolge on Monday closed its Internet search service there and began...
China Issues Another Warning to Google on Enforced Censorship of the Internet
By Michael Wines | The New York Times12 March 2010 One of China's top Internet regulators warned bluntly on Friday that any move by Google to stop censoring its Chinese search engine would be "irresponsible" and would draw a response...
Doubts On Reform Pledges
By Radio Free AsiaMarch 08, 2010 China's premier promises a more open society, but his speech to parliament meets with skepticism. Chinese premier Wen Jiabao has called for greater oversight of government by ordinary citizens and media, but analysts and netizens...
Cyberwar declared as China hunts for the West's intelligence secrets
Michael Evans, Giles Whittell | TimesOnLine (United Kingdom)March 08, 2010 Urgent warnings have been circulated throughout Nato and the European Union for secret intelligence material to be protected from a recent surge in cyberwar attacks originating in China. The attacks...
China imposes new rules for personal websites
By David Pierson - Los Angeles Times February 24, 2010 Applicants will have to verify their identities with regulators and have their photographs taken. A government ministry will review the requests. In a move that will give the government new...
Rift Grows as U.S. and China Seek Differing Goals
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesFebruary 20, 2010 When President Obama met with the Dalai Lama in the White House on Thursday, he was following a tradition that all recent American presidents had dutifully honored. Yet, to some...
China Internet CEO laments state-controlled media
By REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Sugita KatyaFebruary 03, 2010 China will never have its voice heard on the international stage unless the government loosens its tight grip over the media and film...
IFJ Report Lists China's Secret Bans on Media Reporting
International Federation of JournalistsJanuary 31, 2009 A new report by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on press freedom in China highlights the battle by local censors to control media commentary on a wide range of topics throughout in 2009. ...
China paper slams U.S. for cyber role in Iran unrest
By Lucy Hornby | REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJanuary 24, 2010 China's Communist Party mouthpiece on Sunday accused the United States of mounting a cyber army and a "hacker brigade," and of exploiting social media like Twitter or Youtube...
Remarks on Internet Freedom
克林顿国务卿关于互联网自由的讲话 >> Click here for the original English transcript 希拉里·克林顿（Hillary Rodham Clinton）国务卿 华盛顿哥伦比亚特区新闻博物馆（Newseum） 2009 年1 月21 日（星期四） 非常感谢，艾伯托（Alberto）。不仅要感谢你的赞誉和介绍，而且要感谢你和你的同事们在这个重要机构中发挥的领导作用。很高兴来到新闻博物馆。这个博物馆是一座纪念碑，见证了我们最珍视的一些自由。我十分感谢能有此机会谈谈如何运用这些自由应对二十一世纪的各项挑战。 虽然我并不能看到你们所有的人----因为在这样的场合灯光照射我的眼睛，而你们都在背光处----但我知道在座的有很多朋友和老同事。我要感谢自由论坛（Freedom Forum）的首席执行官查尔斯·奥弗比（Charles Overby）光临新闻博物馆，以及我在参议院时的老同事理查德·卢格（Richard Lugar）和乔·利伯曼 (Joe Lieberman) 两位参议员，他们两位都为《表达法》（Voice Act）的通过作出了努力。这项立法表明，美国国会和美国人民不分党派，不分政府部门，坚定地支持互联网自由。 我听说在场的还有参议员萨姆·布朗巴克（Sam Brownback）、参议员特德·考夫曼（Ted Kaufman）、众议员洛雷塔·桑切斯（Loretta Sanchez）、许多大使、临时代办和外交使团的其他代表、以及从中国、哥伦比亚、伊朗、黎巴嫩和摩尔多瓦等国前来参加我们关于互联网自由的"国际访问者领袖计划"（International Visitor Leadership Program）的人士。我还要提到最近被任命为广播理事会（Broadcasting Board of Govenors）理事的阿斯彭研究所（Aspen Institute）所长沃尔特·艾萨克森（Walter Isaacson）。毫无疑问，他在阿斯彭研究所从事的支持互联网自由的工作中发挥了重要作用。 这是关于一个非常重要的议题的一个重要讲话。但在开始谈这个议题前，我想简要介绍一下海地的情况。过去八天来，海地人民和世界人民携手应对一场巨大的灾难。我们这个半球曾历经磨难，但我们目前在太子港面临的困境鲜有先例。通讯网络在我们抗击这场灾难的过程中发挥了极其重要的作用。不用说，当地的通讯网络遭受了重创，在很多地方被彻底摧毁。地震发生后仅几个小时，我们就与民营部门的伙伴发起"海地"（HAITI）短信捐款活动，使美国的移动电话使用者能通过发短信向救灾工作捐款。这项活动充分展示了美国人民的慷慨。迄今，该活动已为海地的抗震救灾筹集了2500 多万美元。...
China to Scan Text Messages to Spot 'Unhealthy Content'
By Sharon LaFraniere | The New York TimesJanuary 19, 2010 As the Chinese government expands what it calls a campaign against pornography, cellular companies in Beijing and Shanghai have been told to suspend text services to cellphone users who are...
Google puts China cell phones on hold amid dispute
By Michael Liedtke, AP Technology Writer | Associated Press | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News 19 January 2010 Google postpones launch of 2 mobile phones in China as fallout from censorship rift widens Google has delayed the debut of two mobile...
Hackers Said to Breach Gmail Accounts in China
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesJanuary 19, 2009 Google e-mail accounts of at least two foreign journalists in Beijing have been compromised, a journalists' advocacy group in China said on Monday, adding that hackers changed Gmail program settings...
In Rebuke of China, Focus Falls on Cybersecurity
By Miguel Helft and John Markoff | The New York Times13 January 2010 Even before Google threatened to pull out of China in response to an attack on its computer systems, the company was notifying activists whose e-mail accounts might...
Google's Threat Echoed Everywhere, Except China
By Andrew Jacobs, Miguel Helft and John Markoff | The New York TimesJanuary 13, 2010 Google's declaration that it would stop cooperating with Chinese Internet censorship and consider shutting down its operations in the country ricocheted around the world Wednesday....
US software firm sues China for 2.2 billion dollars
By Agence France Presse AFP - via (UNCENSORED) Yahoo! NewsJanuary 05, 2010 A California firm filed a 2.2 billion dollar lawsuit against China, accusing Beijing of stealing its technology to bar Internet access to political and religious sites in China....
China Bans Domains
By Radio Free Asia14 December 2009 Chinese authorities ban registration for certain Internet domains, sparking fears of a wider crackdown. A ban on registering certain domain names is part of a Chinese effort to tighten Internet controls, according to Chinese...
China Indicts Prominent Dissident
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | The New York TimesDecember 12, 2009 Liu Xiaobo, one of China's best-known dissidents and a principal author of a pro-democracy manifesto that has attracted more than 10,000 signatures from Chinese supporters, was indicted Thursday on charges...
In China, Battles Over A New Wall
By NBS News' Ed Flanagan | via MSNBC09 November 2009 Twenty years after the toppling of the Berlin Wall, another "wall" is facing intense public scrutiny in China. The so-called Great Firewall of China, the online filtering and surveillance program...
China blocks Internet in Uighur area
UPI - United Press InternationalNovember 05, 2009 Four months after riots in China's Uighur Autonomous Region, residents there are still cut off from the World Wide Web. The government has not said when Internet access will be available again in...
Bluetooth Breaches Firewall
By Radio Free Asia01 October 2009 Cell phone technology provides a new method for exchanging information in Internet-censored China. As Beijing redoubles its efforts to censor Internet content during sensitive National Day celebrations, netizens are turning to an existing form...
China Clamps Down on Internet Ahead of 60th Anniversary
By Owen Fletcher, IDG News Service | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsSeptember 25, 2009 Security forces with black masks and machine guns on the streets of China's capital are just the more visible side of a security clampdown in the country...
China moves to control online music industry
By Marianne Barriaux - Agence France Presse | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsSeptember 10, 2009 China has announced that all songs posted on music websites must receive prior approval and foreign lyrics must be translated into Chinese, in a new push...
China Web Sites Seeking Users' Names
By Jonathan Ansfield | The New York TimesSeptember 05, 2009 News Web sites in China, complying with secret government orders, are requiring that new users log on under their true identities to post comments, a shift in policy that the...
China Censors News of Hu's Son
By RADIO FREE ASIAJuly 24, 2009 Chinese Web sites tying the president's son to news of a corruption probe are shut down and later reopened with the related stories missing. Chinese authorities shut down sections of two major Web portals...
China news blackout on graft case linked to (President) Hu's son
By Agence France Presse | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJuly 23, 2009 China's Internet censors blocked news Thursday about a graft probe in Namibia involving a firm linked to the son of President Hu Jintao, as the state-run media ignored the...
China Clamps Down on More Social Web Sites, Researcher Says
By Brian Womack - Bloomberg.com21 July 2009 The Chinese government restricted access to more social-networking sites in the past few days, escalating a clampdown that started about six months ago, said Xia Qiang, director of the Berkeley China Internet Project....
Beijing Adds Curbs on Access to Internet
By Keith Bradsher | The New York TimesJune 25, 2009 The Chinese Health Ministry on Thursday ordered sharp restrictions on Internet access to medical research papers on sexual subjects. It is the latest move in what the ministry calls an...
China's PC Censorship Software Blocks More than Sex
By Dylan Bushell-Embling | BusinessWeekJune 15, 2009 The controversial new software blocks political and religious websites and is "far more intrusive" than other content control software, say OpenNet researchers China's new Green Dam filtering program blocks far more content than...
China Faces Criticism Over New Software Censor
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York TimesJune 11, 2009 China is facing a storm of protest at home and abroad over new regulations requiring all personal computers sold in the country to include software that can filter out pornography...
A Manifesto on Freedom Sets China's Persecution Machinery in Motion
By Michael Wines | THE NEW YORK TIMES01 May 2009 Behind the west Beijing apartment building where Liu Xia keeps a fifth-floor flat, the police have built a guardhouse. Its purpose is not to protect Ms. Liu, who seeks no...
China Cyber Spy System Hit Global Organizations, Group Says
By Dune Lawrence | Bloomberg.comMarch 30, 2009 A China-based cyber spying operation penetrated almost 1,300 computers in embassies and international organizations around the world, according to a report published yesterday that may spur concern about the country's espionage efforts. The...
China mounts cyber attacks on Indian sites
The Times of IndiaMarch 30, 2009 China's cyber warfare army is marching on, and India is suffering silently. Over the past one and a half years, officials said, China has mounted almost daily attacks on Indian computer networks, both government...
Canadian researchers uncover vast Chinese cyber spy network
By Kim Covert, Canwest News Service | NATIONAL POSTMarch 28, 2009 10-month investigation by a team of researchers at the University of Toronto uncovered a broad Chinese espionage scheme that reached into foreign embassies, news services and even the office...
Tibet Protesters Are Held in China After Riot
By David Barboza | THE NEW YORK TIMESMarch 24, 2009 Nearly 100 people, most of them monks, were being held in a Tibetan area of northwestern China after a crowd attacked a police station there on Saturday, according to the...
China: Group's Web Site Blocked
By Agence France-Presse | THE NEW YORK TIMESJanuary 12, 2009 Amnesty International said Monday that its Web site had again been blocked in China and it urged the government to reopen access to it immediately. Roseann Rife, deputy director of...
China: Political Site Is Shut Down
By The Associated Press | The New York Times January 10, 2009 China on Friday expanded its Internet cleanup campaign, which had ostensibly been aimed at cracking down on pornography, to shut down a blog-hosting site popular with activists, www.bullog.cn - The...
Petition Urges China to Free Dissident
By Edward Wong | THE NEW YORK TIMESDecember 23, 2008 More than 160 prominent writers, scholars and human rights advocates outside mainland China have signed an open letter to President Hu Jintao asking him to release a well-known intellectual and dissident...
Post-Olympics China Turns Its Back On Internet Censorship Promises
By Jason Mick | DAILYTECH.COMDecember 18, 2008 Just when you thought China had softened on web crack-downs, it returns to its old ways China has not exactly been known for its great freedom of speech. Its citizens' internet access is tightly...
China says within rights to block some websites
By REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsDecember 16, 2008 China's foreign ministry said on Tuesday the country was within its rights to block websites with content illegal under Chinese law, including websites that referred to China and Taiwan as two...
China angrily dismisses US congressional report
Agence France Presse - via UNCENSORED Yahoo! TECH NewsNovember 22, 2008 China reacted angrily Saturday to a US congressional report that accused Beijing of developing sophisticated cyber warfare and militarising its space programme. The annual China report to Congress of...
China spying on Skype users: Canadian researchers
By Agence France Presse | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsOctober 02, 2008 China is monitoring the chat messages of Skype users and censoring them if they contain sensitive keywords such as "Tibet" or "Communist Party," according to a group of Canadian...
China's Rulers Stay Tough Despite the Olympics Hoopla
By Paul Mooney | U.S. News & World ReportAugust 26, 2008 China was intent on making a splash with the 2008 Olympics, which concluded on Sunday, and it did just that. The games are being described as the best ever,...
China's leaders steer Games wrong way
By Christine Brennan - USA TODAYAugust 07, 2008 The popular notion is that the story of the Beijing Olympic Games begins this Friday night, 8.8.08, as the saying goes, with the opening ceremony in the glowing-red Bird's Nest. But that's...
Defiant China hits out at US, stands firm on Internet
By Charles Whelan | Agence France Presse | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJuly 31, 2008 A defiant China stood firm on controversies swirling around the Olympics on Thursday, hitting back at the United States over human rights criticism and insisting Internet...
China to censor Internet during Games: organisers
By Karl Malakunas | Agence France Presse | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJuly 30, 2008 China plunged into another Olympic controversy on Wednesday as it announced that the thousands of foreign reporters covering the Games would have to endure Internet censorship....
China orders phone, Internet moratorium
By Joe McDonald, Associated Press Business Writer | The San Francisco Chronicle June 26, 2008 The government has ordered China's fast-growing phone companies to stop adding new customers in August so they can better focus on ensuring service for the...
China Internet control unacceptable: European Commissioner
By Agence France Presse June 21, 2008 It is unacceptable for China to block Internet content, a European Commissioner said Friday, calling the Internet a free and open medium. "We say for instance to the Chinese, very clearly so, that...
China won't guarantee Web freedom over Olympics
By Ben Blanchard - REUTERS | via (UNCENSORED) Yahoo! NewsMay 08, 2008 China will not guarantee it won't censor the Internet over this summer's Beijing Olympics, nor can it guarantee to stamp out piracy of Olympic-branded goods, officials said on...
Senator: China plans to spy on Olympic hotel guests
By SAM HANANEL, Associated Press Writer | via uncensored Yahoo! News May 01, 2008 A U.S. senator accused the Chinese government on Thursday of ordering U.S.-owned hotels in China to install Internet filters that can spy on international visitors coming...
IOC warns China over web access
By BBC News April 01, 2008 China must ensure open access to the internet during the Beijing Games, Olympic officials have warned. Inspectors from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said China was obliged under its Games contract to provide journalists...
Pressed Over Tibet, China Berates Foreign Media
By David Barboza | The New York Times March 25, 2008 Chinese officials have sharply criticized foreign reporters here over their coverage of the riots in Tibet, accusing them of biased reporting and preventing them from traveling to Tibet or...
China Blocks YouTube Over Tibet Videos
By The Associated Press | The New York Times16 March 2008 China blocked access to YouTube.com on Sunday after dozens of videos of recent protests in Tibet appeared on the popular U.S. video Web site. The blocking added to the...
Chinese Search Engine Censured
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The New York Times February 19, 2008 China's top Internet search engine, Baidu.com, has been censured by a government-sponsored watchdog for allegedly helping spread sexually explicit photos that appear to feature several Hong Kong stars....
Dissident's Arrest Hints at Olympic Crackdown
By Jim Yardley | The New York Times30 January 2008 When state security agents burst into his apartment last month, Hu Jia was chatting on Skype, the Internet-based telephone system. Mr. Hu's computer was his most potent tool. He disseminated...
Chinese Netizens Rally in Support of Hu Jia
By RADIO FREE ASIAJanuary 8, 2008 Ordinary Chinese have left numerous support messages online for detained AIDS activist Hu Jia and his wife and baby, who remain under tight restriction at the couple's Beijing apartment. Authorities are meanwhile clamping down...
Bloggers Push China to Prosecute Beating Death
By David Barboza | The New York TimesJanuary 18, 2008 More than 100 people are under investigation and several government officials have been detained or removed from office in central China after a dispute in early January in which a...
China Moves to Control Online Video
By Radio Free Asia 04 January 2008 China's government has issued a stringent new set of rules which will ban all but state-owned corporations from making and uploading video to the Internet. The new regulations were issued jointly Dec. 31...
China limits Internet video to state-controlled companies
By Associated Press | The Straits Times (Singapore) January 03, 2008 China has decided to restrict the broadcasting of Internet videos - including those posted on video-sharing websites - to sites run by state-controlled companies and require providers to report...
Beijing Closes Thousands of Websites
By Feng Changle | The Epoch TimesSeptember 07, 2007 With the Chinese Communist Party's Seventeenth Congress around the corner, another wave of Internet traffic controls are sweeping across the nation. Ministry of Information Industry Blocks Websites Nationwide On August 27,...
Wikipedia Blocked in China Again
By Steven Schwankert, IDG News Service | via (uncensored) Yahoo! NewsSeptember 06, 2007 Wikipedia's English site is blocked again in China, after over two months of being accessible, continuing a saga of on-again, off-again availability. Users in Shanghai and Beijing...
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