China Internet

Competition with Chinese Characteristics

Franck Nazikian | Posted 05.15.2012

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Franck Nazikian

With an online population of over 500 million and a consistent double digit growth rate, the region with the biggest stakes and the most significant prospects is none other than China.

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China Clamps Down On Sites For Spreading Rumors

Reuters | Posted 04.01.2012

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese authorities shut 16 websites and detained six people accused of spreading rumors of unusual military vehicle movements in...

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Globalization 2.0: China's Parallel Internet

Eric X. Li | Posted 03.20.2012

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Eric X. Li

China's size and its centralized governance have enabled the creation of a parallel Internet universe connected to and separate from the one outside. China is pursuing a distinctive response to the Internet.

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Official: Chinese Government Will Be 'Even More Open'

AP | By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 03.19.2012

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BEIJING -- China will be more open about the often secretive workings of the government and ruling Communist Party in the coming year, although strict...

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Half A Billion

Reuters | Posted 03.12.2012

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The number of Internet users in China have crossed the half billion mark, reaching 505 million users at the end of November last ...

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China’s Parallel Online Universe

The Diplomat | Posted 12.27.2011

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As the showdown escalated between Chinese security forces and residents of Wukan, where villagers revolted against the Chinese Communist Party, you di...

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China as Poster Boy for IP Protection?

Leslie Harris | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Pipa, Sopa, Internet Censorship, Free Expression, Free Speech, China Internet, Google China, China Internet Censorship, China Google, Technology News
Leslie Harris

In the middle of one of the most contentious debates in Congress about intellectual property in recent memory, the MPAA appears to have finally found an analogy that it believes will persuade skeptics to support slash-and-burn piracy bills now before Congress: Google in China.

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Grateful for the Internet and Those Saving It

Edward J. Black | Posted 01.23.2012

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Edward J. Black

The biggest danger to the Internet is not some big shutdown, as we saw in Egypt, but a death by a thousand cuts.

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China's 99% -- Why China Will Not Surpass the U.S.

Lyric Hughes Hale | Posted 01.03.2012

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Lyric Hughes Hale

As China is transitioning to become a full member of the world community from which it was entirely separated just forty years ago, we have perhaps seen the end of Chinese rather than American exceptionalism.

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Will U.S. Harm Its Economy, Security With Myopic IP Bills?

Edward J. Black | Posted 01.01.2012

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Edward J. Black

Author's Note: While this is not an actual intercepted diplomatic cable, I can imagine similar sentiments have been communicated. This legislation is...

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Steve Job, Resting More in Peace as Internet Assault Thwarted

Ken Adelman | Posted 12.11.2011

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Ken Adelman

After six years of success, the Internet Governance Forum has come under assault by the authoritarian Chinese government and the international-regulation crowd in the UN bureaucracy.

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China’s Brazen Cyber Theft?

The Diplomat | Posted 12.06.2011

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China is spying on the United States on an unprecedented scale and is engaging in ‘brazen and widespread theft’ of intellectual property from arou...

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China Sentences Online Activist To Prison For Staging Protest

AP | By CHARLES HUTZLER | Posted 11.09.2011

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BEIJING -- A retired businesswoman and popular online activist was sentenced to nine months in jail Friday for staging a protest on behalf of other ac...

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China's Twitter-Like Site Cuts Off Accounts Over 'Rumors'

AP | Posted 10.29.2011

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By Joe McDonald, Associated Press BEIJING -- China's most popular microblogging site is cracking down on what it says is the spread of false rumors...

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China Official Tells Web Firms To Crack Down On Dissent

AP | By JOE McDONALD | Posted 10.28.2011

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BEIJING -- A Communist Party leader has told China's Internet companies to tighten control over material online as Beijing cracks down on dissent and ...

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China Tightens Grip On Web Content

AP | By JOE McDONALD | Posted 10.24.2011

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BEIJING -- A Communist Party leader has told China's Internet companies to tighten control over material online as Beijing cracks down on dissent and ...

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Chinese Site Bans Web Tools Used To Evade Filters

AP | JOE McDONALD | Posted 10.24.2011

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BEIJING — A major Chinese online commerce site has banned sales of software used to bypass Internet censorship amid Beijing's efforts to block t...

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China Accuses U.S. Of Broad 'Internet War' Targeting Arab Governments

AP | Posted 08.03.2011

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BEIJING — The Chinese military accused the U.S. on Friday of launching a global "Internet war" to bring down Arab and other governments, redirec...

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Voices Behind China's Protest Calls

AP | By GILLIAN WONG | Posted 06.06.2011

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SEOUL, South Korea -- Strolling past hip cafes, the young Chinese man in a white sports jacket and faded jeans looks like any other university student...

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Prominent Chinese Blogger Charged As Crackdown Deepens

Posted 05.28.2011

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By Chris Buckley and Sui-Lee Wee - Mon Mar 28, 5:51 am ET BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have arrested prominent writer Ran Yunfei for chal...

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China's Web Police Block U.S. Ambassador's Name

AP | ANITA CHANG | Posted 05.25.2011

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BEIJING — China widened its Internet policing after online calls for protests like those that swept the Middle East, with social networking site Lin...

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China Shuts Over 60,000 Porn Websites This Year

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

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China shut down more than 60,000 pornographic websites this year, netting almost 5,000 suspects in the process, a government spokesman said on Thursda...

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China Vows To Keep Blocking Online Content

AP | SCOTT McDONALD | Posted 05.25.2011

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BEIJING — China vowed Tuesday to keep a tight grip on the Internet, saying it would continue to block anything considered subversive or threaten...

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China's Microblogs Facing New Restrictions

AP | CARA ANNA | Posted 05.25.2011

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BEIJING — Dozens of blogs by some of China's most outspoken users have been abruptly shut down while popular Twitter-like services appear to be ...

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China Wants To Increase Communication Monitoring

AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 05.25.2011

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BEIJING — China is poised to strengthen a law to require telecommunications and Internet companies to inform on customers who discuss state secr...

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