Search results for free speech
On July 13th Li Yuanlong was sentenced to two years in prison for posting an essy on the Internet outlining his dissatisfaction with China's current regime. His biting words, dubbed as "inciting subversion" by the CCP controlled courts, have been translated by ESWN blog for all to read.
there are no great or small rights but only democracy and totalitarianism. I say that in my vocabulary, there is no China versus outside b...
As originally posted at Weifang Radish, Dave's Wagon gives a bit of a review of the latest way to dig under the Great Firewall of China. Though similar to Anonymouse, Proxzee seems quite a bit faster.
"Handle things soberly, move deliberately, and use force cautiously", Xinhua Shanghai editor quotes... whom? And why?
The Humanaught's recent post talks about China's net nanny finally unblocking information mega-site Wikipedia, drawing particular attention to the fact that the Chinese version of the site is still very m
Here is a post from the Free Hao Wu site. Though a little late (posted July 12th), it's not to be missed. A wonderful ending to what looked for a long time to be a horrible tragedy. Welcome home Hao! Truely HAO HAO!
A Next Weekly (in translation via ESWN) article by Steven N.S. Cheung, where he gives a bit of depth to some of Beijing's reasons for supression of free speech, and why in the end it will stop knowledge development - and in turn Chinese social development.
A Chinese court on Wednesday jailed a dissident for three years for inciting subversion with an Internet essay praising pro-rights protests in Hong Kong, a human rights group said.
Reporters Without Borders has torn a new one in the major Internet companies that have been profiting off of China's need for censorship technology at the first global Internet governance forum...
Probably from the beginnings of the Cold War to its end, millions of people in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe listened to the USIA´s radio flagship, the Voice of America (VoA). At least when compared to what people under direct or indirect Soviet rule...
A Hong Kong journalist has been jailed for five years in mainland China, after being convicted of spying.
Chinese officialdom is struggling to respond to waves of satire on the internet, regularly used by 123 million people.
ESWN posts an alleged list of banned terms in Xinhua's news reporting. The first three sections of the list seem pretty routine, outlining who can be named, what terms to use for disabled people, etc.
It's when it gets to the forth section that controversy rears its head. Lots of quoted
