China Clamps Down on Web, Pinching Firms Like Google
China’s online controls have not stopped four of its biggest internet companies from climbing into the global top ten, although further tightening may yet impose economic roadblocks. But The New York...
View ArticleGoogle DNS Poisoning Follows Brief Unblocking
Percy Alpha, an independent Internet freedom researcher and co-founder of GreatFire.org, observes that all Google search domains have been subjected to DNS poisoning on March 29th, two days after...
View ArticleNew Search & App Rules as Cybersecurity Law Looms
China’s Cyberspace Administration (CAC), which saw the announcement of an unexpected leadership change this week, has unveiled a raft of new rules covering web search and mobile apps. Meanwhile, the...
View ArticleGoogle Faces Backlash over China Plans
The Intercept reported last week that Google is planning to re-enter the Chinese market with the launch of a censored version of its search engine that blocks content deemed sensitive by the Chinese...
View ArticleHow Google Is Developing Its Censored Search Engine
Google’s controversial plan to relaunch a censored search engine in China–one that complies with the country’s censorship regime by filtering banned search terms and results–is supported by what may...
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Crime of the Week: Illegal Dedication of Flowers
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online...
View ArticleAnger Grows over Google’s China Plans
Following a leak that revealed plans by Google to reenter China with a censored search engine, more than 1,000 company staff members have signed a petition protesting the move. Kate Conger and Daisuke...
View ArticleActivists Ask Google: What’s Changed Since 2010?
A backlash has mounted in recent weeks following leaked news that Google has been preparing search censorship mechanisms for a possible return to China. On Monday, a group of prominent rights...
View ArticleNew iPhones, Google Plans Could Track Chinese Users
The ability to persistently link people’s identities and activities is a core theme of China’s raft of developing surveillance and population management schemes. It has arisen in the nascent social...
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Badiucao (巴丢草): Google CEO Defends China Plans
At the WIRED 25 Summit on Monday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai commented on the company’s plans, codenamed Project Dragonfly, to return to China with a new search engine. Its prospective accommodation of...
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Google Steps Back from China; McKinsey in Deep
In August The Intercept’s Ryan Gallagher revealed that Google had been working in secret on a search engine with censorship and surveillance capabilities aimed at allowing it to operate under China’s...
View ArticleGoogle Employees Fear China Project Continues
News last year of Google’s “Project Dragonfly,” a censorship- and surveillance-enabled search engine designed to facilitate the company’s return to the Chinese market, triggered a strong backlash among...
View ArticleGoogle Investors’ Call for China Rights Review Fails
Last year, leaked plans for “Project Dragonfly,” a China-focused Google search product, triggered a fierce backlash within and beyond the company against proposed censorship and surveillance functions,...
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Google Faces New Wave of Scrutiny Over China Ties
After months of mounting scrutiny of American companies’ involvement with Chinese AI and surveillance technology, and particularly its deployment in Xinjiang, the spotlight has returned to Google with...
View ArticleHeartbreak, Disinformation, and New Punitive Measures in the Wake of Xinjiang...
With the release of the Xinjiang Police Files on Tuesday, the world has seen what Xinjiang’s “re-education” camps look like from inside official Chinese government databases: mugshots of thousands of...
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Translation: He Jiayan on the “Accelerating Collapse” of the Chinese Internet
Late last month, a WeChat article about the “collapse of the Chinese-language internet” attracted tens of thousands of views and spurred an enthusiastic response before it was eventually censored....
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