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China’s censors are making sure the country doesn’t remember human rights activist Liu Xiaobo - 14 juillet 2017
Liu Xiaobo will be remembered by the world as the Chinese human rights activist awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010. He’ll be remembered by many in China, if at all, as a man jailed for subversion of state power. China’s censors are making sure of it.
Liu died from organ failure after a battle with liver cancer (...)
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Censure diplomatique : Weibo bannit les féministes chinoises qui s’en prennent à Donald Trump - 22 février 2017
Le malaise chinois concernant Donald Trump se prolongera aussi longtemps que le président américain ne clarifiera pas sa stratégie concernant le régime de Xi Jinping. En attendant, la société chinoise est muselée par un gouvernement qui marche sur des œufs. Les réseaux sociaux locaux sont les premières victimes.
Sur Sina (...)
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La nouvelle directrice de Twitter en Chine inquiète les utilisateurs - 20 avril 2016
Les utilisateurs chinois de Twitter s’inquiètent de la nouvelle embauche du réseau social. Kathy Chen vient de devenir la première directrice générale de Twitter en Chine, qui compte très peu d’utilisateurs en Chine continentale. Son profil affole les utilisateurs : elle serait un peu trop proche du Parti communiste (...)
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China imposes new restrictions on instant messaging tools : Xinhua - 7 août 2014
China will force real-name registrations on users of instant messaging tools and require public accounts wishing to publish or reprint political news to seek prior approval, state media said on Thursday.
Last year, China launched a campaign to clamp down on online rumour mongering and ’clean up’ the internet. The (...)
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China’s Sina fined for indecent content in web porn crackdown - 3 mai 2014
Chinese Internet firm Sina Corp said it was fined 5.1 million yuan ($815,038) by Beijing authorities for allowing "unhealthy and indecent content" on its online reading channel and on its main website.
Sina was stripped of some online publication licenses last week after being targeted in a pornography crackdown, (...)
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Weibo debut highlights complicated dance with Chinese censors - 18 avril 2014
Weibo Corp executives on Thursday toasted the Chinese social media firm’s debut at Nasdaq’s New York headquarters. Hours earlier in Beijing, Charles Xue, a Chinese-American venture capitalist and prominent Weibo user, celebrated a different kind of coming-out : his release after eight months in jail.
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Linkedin ouvre un site en chinois en acceptant la censure - 26 février 2014
En ouvrant son site en chinois, le réseau professionnel Linkedin a dû accepter les règles de censure imposées par la Chine. Il arrive tardivement dans le pays où un acteur comme le Français Viadeo a déjà 17 millions de membres via Tianji.com.
Le réseau social professionnel Linkedin a fait son entrée officielle en Chine (...)
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Google’s Eric Schmidt denies knowledge of NSA data tapping of firm - 23 janvier 2014
Executive chairman says search company has ’complained at great length’ to the US government over intrusion
Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, has insisted he had no knowledge of the US National Security Agency’s tapping of the company’s data, despite having a sufficiently high security clearance to have been (...)
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Les délateurs en embuscade sur le Net - 31 mars 2013
A l’heure des réseaux sociaux, le pouvoir chinois cogite dur pour dénicher la recette qui lui permettra de maintenir son contrôle sur l’information. L’université Baiyun de Canton a trouvé une solution : mobiliser les étudiants les plus dévoués pour épier les discussions de leurs camarades sur la Toile. Le quotidien cantonais (...)
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China’s "˜weibo’ accounts shuttered as part of Internet crackdown - 4 janvier 2013
Several influential Chinese bloggers, activists and even a popular cartoonist have had their online microblogging accounts shut down in recent days, belying the hopes of many here that the country’s new Communist Party leaders might begin to relax strict controls over the Internet and free expression.
Instead, the (...)
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Chinese Authorities Putting Pressure on Businesses to Help Censor the Web - 14 novembre 2012
As the Chinese cyberpolice stiffened controls on information before the Communist Party leadership transition taking place this week, some companies in Beijing and nearby cities received orders to aid the cause.
Starting earlier this year, Web police units directed the companies, which included joint ventures (...)
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Web 2.0 Is Over, All Hail the Age of Mobile - 10 juin 2012
When they look back at this era, Internet historians will mark Facebook’s Instagram acquisition as the symbolic moment when the Great Shift was confirmed. Significantly, it also came soon after Steve Jobs’ death. The device that Jobs created had, within the space of five years, allowed a 551-day-old company with 14 (...)
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New rules for Chinese microbloggers - 29 mai 2012
China’s version of Twitter has introduced new rules aimed at calming its often raucous flow of political and social criticism.
A five-strikes-and-out rule will see anyone posting five tweets on "sensitive" subjects have their account on Sina’s Weibo suspended for 48 hours.
Anyone whose posts continue to irk the (...)
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Censure : la Chine invente le permis de tweeter - 29 mai 2012
Twitter n’est pas accessible en Chine. Mais son équivalent local le plus populaire, Sina Weibo, compte aujourd’hui 300 millions d’utilisateurs... soit autant d’internautes à surveiller. Pour plus d’efficacité, Weibo a mis en place cette semaine de nouvelles contraintes qui prévoient notamment des sanctions pour « fausse (...)
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State pressure blamed for new censorship on China’s Twitter - 29 mai 2012
Weibo users to face tighter restrictions on ’spreading rumours’ and ’insulting the nation’
Social media users in China face tighter controls after the introduction of new rules aimed at preventing the spread of online rumours on Sina Weibo, the country’s version of Twitter.
The service, which has 300 million members, (...)
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China’s Weibo microblog introduces user contracts - 28 mai 2012
China’s biggest microblogging service has introduced a code of conduct explicitly restricting the type of messages that can be posted.
Weibo - which resembles Twitter - took the action after local authorities criticised "unfounded" rumours posted by some users.
Reports suggest a credit score system will also be (...)
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Sina Weibo to introduce "˜user contract’ on May 28 as China’s microblog crackdown continues - 28 mai 2012
Fresh from admitting that it hasn’t fully implemented China’s new rules for microblogs, Web giant Sina is set to introduce a "˜user contract’ for its popular Twitter-like Sina Weibo service at the end of May, as it continues to battle to control sensitive information on the site.
The terms, spotted by former TNW (...)
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Un "permis à points" sur les réseaux sociaux chinois - 28 mai 2012
Afin d’éviter l’"expansion des rumeurs" sur la Toile chinoise, Sina Weibo a modifié, lundi 28 mai, les conditions d’utilisation de son service de micromessagerie. L’entreprise, qui revendique 300 millions de comptes ouverts, va introduire un système à base de points, censé correspondre à la bonne conduite de l’internaute. (...)
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How China gets the Internet to censor itself - 20 mars 2012
Just who owns the Internet, and who has the right to control what content is available on it ? Is it sovereign territory, or is it free from the confines of antiquated earthbound laws ? These questions have engaged Internet activists and scholars for over a decade. And, after the intense debate last month over (...)
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378 words that are blocked on Weibo as of March 13, 2012 - 20 mars 2012
I decided to run a re-test of my initial list of blocked words this morning. Below you’ll find 378* keywords that are blocked as of March 13, 2012 (note : English translations generated automatically from Google and not verified to be accurate) :
Of the 1300 mostly unique words I found to be unsearchable in my (...)
