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What If You Had To Use Your Real Name On Twitter?

Reuters | Sui-Lee Wee | Posted 05.16.2012

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By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - Living in one of the world's most heavily censored societies, Wang Yong enjoys anonymously venting h...

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'Tweeting' Exploded In China Last Year

Reuters | Posted 03.16.2012

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Use of microblogging in China quadrupled in 2011 compared with the previous year, with nearly half of all Chinese Internet users ...

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What The World's Biggest Internet Population Uses Instead Of Facebook

The Huffington Post | Ramona Emerson | Posted 12.06.2011

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China's complex web censorship project, referred to as the "Great Firewall of China," prevents many ordinary Chinese 'net-users from accessing Faceboo...

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‘Twitter Of China’ Attracts Bill Gates, Maria Sharipova, Tom Cruise

Posted 11.16.2011

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By Melanie Lee SHANGHAI (Reuters) - What do the International Monetary Fund, Louis Vuitton and Unilever have in common? They are the among a clu...

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China Blocks 'Egypt'

Posted 05.25.2011

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China has blocked the word "Egypt" from appearing in searches on its country's popular Twitter-like service, Sina. A search for "Egypt'' on the mic...

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Red Microblog: China's Communist Twitter

The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Chinese government has launched "Red Microblog" as a propaganda-filled response to popular micro-blogging sites like Twitter. Unlike Twitter, whi...

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Twitterpated: Censoring 140 Characters

John Wagner Givens | Posted 05.25.2011

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How far has political discourse fallen that 140 characters, in a language as concise as Chinese, is considered sufficient space to provide political commentary that is not only worth reading, but worth censoring?

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Put Article 19 into Action in Asia

Libby Liu | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama called for the lifting of restrictions on the Internet and Twitter in China. Ironically, China's state-run People's Daily online censored these very comments from its translation.

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China's Internet Censorship Gets "Worse And Worse" Ahead Of 60th Anniversary

tech.yahoo.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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The heightened security comes ahead of a massive military parade Beijing will hold in the heart of the city next week to celebrate China's 60th annive...

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China Closes Websites In Effort To Block Spread Of Information

AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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BEIJING — Two more Web sites dedicated to social networking went offline in China on Tuesday amid tightening controls that have blocked Facebook...

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China Uighurs Protest Coverage Shows Changes In State Media Blocks

Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.25.2011

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News of Sunday's riots in Urumqi, the capital of China's far west Xinjiang region spread quickly on the Internet, where users posted amateur photos an...

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Tiananmen Square: Foreign Reporters Barred By China On Eve Of Anniversary

AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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BEIJING — A massive police presense ringed China's iconic Tiananmen Square on Thursday, the 20th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-demo...

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