The president himself has gone to court to prevent the release of photographs of US troops torturing captives in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Guantanamo. Talk about censorship!
Xiaoda Xiao | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books
Under the strict censorship regulations of the current regime in China, the publication of any literary work that shows signs of penetrating in depth, or exposing the reality of prison life is forbidden.
Huffington Post | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
Blogging from a fancy office in Soho, it is easy to forget how dangerous it can be for bloggers around the world to do their work. But just last month...
The New York Times | STEVEN ERLANGER | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books
The Frankfurt Book Fair, which struggled to find a balance between free speech and honoring China as its featured country, dismissed its project manag...
The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.15.2009 | Books
The Frankfurt Book Fair has been going on this week, and it's brought news, controversy, and excitement galore with it. The choice of China for guest ...
AP | MELISSA EDDY | Posted 10.13.2009 | Books
BERLIN — Organizers of the Frankfurt Book Fair worked for 15 years to secure China as the guest of honor at their five-day showcase of global tr...
PEN American Center | Larry Siems | Posted 12.02.2009 | Books
New York City, October 2, 2009--Calling yesterday's near-unanimous vote approving a Congressional resolution demanding the immediate release of critic...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media
When deadly riots broke out in China last week, the Chinese government sprang into message control mode. It choked off the Internet, blocked Twitter, and deleted updates and videos from social networking sites. At the same time, it invited foreign journalists to take a tour of the area. The Chinese have clearly learned the lessons of Iran. READ MORE Shattering the Right vs. Left Prism Once Again: The Wall Street Journal Goes After Goldman and the Bank Bailout Even the capitalist Bible is taking shots at Wall Street darling Goldman Sachs. We've now reached the point where the only people defending the administration's Wall Street policies are the people benefiting from them -- or their good friends, Tim Geithner and Larry Summers. READ MORE
Christina Patterson | Posted 08.02.2009 | Media
Vicious governments will always try to hold on to power, but a modest Englishman called Tim has made their job much harder.
Peter Scheer | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
Both Iran and China are modernizing autocracies committed by a combination of ideology and fear to maintaining control over their peoples' access to information. Iran's lesson for China's leaders is that the technologies of censorship, despite their increasing sophistication, may not be sufficient to prevent determined citizens from using technologies of communication to organize dissent and political opposition on a mass scale.
Michael Shtender-Auerbach | Posted 07.11.2009 | World
What happens when the Chinese request all PC's include internal hardware mechanisms for the tracking and monitoring of its users?
Huffington Post | David Flumenbaum | Posted 07.04.2009 | Media
Chinese officials blocked video cameras from filming at Tiananmen Square on Wednesday... with umbrellas. Reporting from the square, CNN's John Vause ...
Thomas Crampton | Posted 05.02.2009 | Media
A collaborative approach to reporting of Internet blocks can be particularly useful in countries like China, where Internet blocks appear to hopscotch through cities inconsistently.
Disgrasian | Posted 04.17.2009 | World
This is China we're talking about, so the video isn't just funny, punny wordplay. The grass-mud horse video has become a national symbol of resistance to authority and censorship.
Rebecca Novick | Posted 04.03.2009 | Media
Zhu Rui has met the Dalai Lama twice now. "He has such simplicity," she says, "which is why many Chinese leaders don't understand him. They are much too complicated."
David Flumenbaum | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment
Around Asia, mentions of "gay" or "lesbian" were muted out of the Oscars broadcast. But the award for the most creative censorship method goes to China's CCTV for its work during Sean Penn's speech.
Rebecca MacKinnon | Posted 03.01.2009 | World
If you really want to take U.S.-China relations to a new level that rises above the day-to-day issues, you need to find new ways to engage the Chinese people themselves -- not just their government.
Michael A. Santoro and Wendy Goldberg | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
We are accustomed to thinking of censorship purely as a human rights issue, but for information providers and technology companies, censorship acts as a trade barrier.
John Wagner Givens | Posted 01.08.2009 | World
The Chinese state has staked its legitimacy on providing economic growth, stability and an ever increasing stature for China on the world stage. The 2008 Olympics had to be flawless.
David Flumenbaum | Posted 02.24.2009 | Entertainment
It is unlikely that when Axl Rose selected the title for his album, he realized the depth of the parallels between Chinese democracy and Chinese Democracy.
Megan Shank | Posted 11.10.2008 | Business
For many companies working with Chinese firms on online products and services the hidden cost inherent in sticky ethics often emerges snarling.
Chi Tung | Posted 11.01.2008 | Media
American media coverage of China tends to slant one of two ways: toward fat, happy and unquestioning globalization, or small-minded, unblinking provincialism.
AP | AUDRA ANG | Posted 09.21.2008 | Media
BEIJING — Police descended on a group of foreign pro-Tibet activists and some disgruntled business owners from Hong Kong on Thursday, taking bot...
AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 09.17.2008 | Politics
BEIJING — A group of American Christians who had more than 300 Bibles confiscated by Chinese officials when they arrived in China is refusing to...
Dave Lindorff | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics