Chinese Censors

Half a million people in a single Chinese city are being infected with Covid every day, a senior health official has said, in a rare and quickly censored acknowledgment that the country's wave of infections is not being reflected in statistics.

TikTok could face a ban in the US, as lawmakers unveiled bipartisan legislation aimed at banning the Chinese video sharing app. The US is concerned that TikTok, which is owned by ByteDance, could be used to spy on 200 million American users and censor content on the popular social media app.

Chinese social media censors have blocked posts, keywords, and hashtags related to the extremely rare public protest ahead of a landmark Chinese Communist Party (CCP) meeting that is scheduled to begin on October 16.

Censors in China have changed the conclusion of a recent animated film 'Minions: The Rise of Gru', according to The Guardian.

A popular Chinese medical information site has been censored by authorities for "violation of relevant laws and regulations", months after its criticism of a government-backed herbal Covid-19 treatment sent shares in a pharmaceutical giant tumbling.

After a senior Communist Party official said that the "zero-covid" policy would remain in place in Beijing "for the next five years," Chinese censors removed his speech from the Internet.

People in Shanghai and other Chinese cities have been using words from national anthem to protest the stringent Covid curbs clamped on them.

Lithuania's Defence Ministry is drafting legislation to ban state institutions from purchasing "untrustworthy" equipment, after finding a censoring feature in a Chinese smartphone company's flagship phone, Margiris Abukevicius, deputy minister at the Defence Ministry said.

Xiaomi said that its devices do not censor users' communications, a day after Lithuania's Defence Ministry recommended that consumers avoid Chinese phones due to a censoring feature in the smartphone giant's flagship phone.

Beijing-born Chloe Zhao was scrubbed from Chinese social media on Monday as a nationalist backlash airbrushed out her remarkable achievement of becoming the first woman of colour to win the best director Oscar.

It seems Microsoft's professional networking site LinkedIn is in hot water in China as the country's internet regulator has reportedly rebuked the executive of the company this month for failing to control political content.

Chinese companies such as TikTok-owner ByteDance have been asked by India to answer 77 questions about their apps that have been banned by New Delhi, including whether they censored content, worked on behalf of foreign governments or lobbied influencers.

Research group that found the Pegasus attack in WhatsApp, says WeChat has a system to monitor non-China accounts to censor documents and images for its Chinese users.

Australian Strategic Policy Institute's International Cyber Policy Centre concluded that many Chinese tech companies "are engaged in deeply unethical behaviour in Xinjiang”.

Chinese tech giants including ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, and Huawei Technologies are working closely with the Communist Party to censor and surveil Uighur Muslims in China's western region of Xinjiang, according to a report published Thursday.

Half a million people in a single Chinese city are being infected with Covid every day, a senior health official has said, in a rare and quickly censored acknowledgment that the country's wave of infections is not being reflected in statistics.

TikTok could face a ban in the US, as lawmakers unveiled bipartisan legislation aimed at banning the Chinese video sharing app. The US is concerned that TikTok, which is owned by ByteDance, could be used to spy on 200 million American users and censor content on the popular social media app.

Chinese social media censors have blocked posts, keywords, and hashtags related to the extremely rare public protest ahead of a landmark Chinese Communist Party (CCP) meeting that is scheduled to begin on October 16.

Censors in China have changed the conclusion of a recent animated film 'Minions: The Rise of Gru', according to The Guardian.

A popular Chinese medical information site has been censored by authorities for "violation of relevant laws and regulations", months after its criticism of a government-backed herbal Covid-19 treatment sent shares in a pharmaceutical giant tumbling.

After a senior Communist Party official said that the "zero-covid" policy would remain in place in Beijing "for the next five years," Chinese censors removed his speech from the Internet.

People in Shanghai and other Chinese cities have been using words from national anthem to protest the stringent Covid curbs clamped on them.

Lithuania's Defence Ministry is drafting legislation to ban state institutions from purchasing "untrustworthy" equipment, after finding a censoring feature in a Chinese smartphone company's flagship phone, Margiris Abukevicius, deputy minister at the Defence Ministry said.

Xiaomi said that its devices do not censor users' communications, a day after Lithuania's Defence Ministry recommended that consumers avoid Chinese phones due to a censoring feature in the smartphone giant's flagship phone.

Beijing-born Chloe Zhao was scrubbed from Chinese social media on Monday as a nationalist backlash airbrushed out her remarkable achievement of becoming the first woman of colour to win the best director Oscar.

It seems Microsoft's professional networking site LinkedIn is in hot water in China as the country's internet regulator has reportedly rebuked the executive of the company this month for failing to control political content.

Chinese companies such as TikTok-owner ByteDance have been asked by India to answer 77 questions about their apps that have been banned by New Delhi, including whether they censored content, worked on behalf of foreign governments or lobbied influencers.

Research group that found the Pegasus attack in WhatsApp, says WeChat has a system to monitor non-China accounts to censor documents and images for its Chinese users.

Australian Strategic Policy Institute's International Cyber Policy Centre concluded that many Chinese tech companies "are engaged in deeply unethical behaviour in Xinjiang”.

Chinese tech giants including ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, and Huawei Technologies are working closely with the Communist Party to censor and surveil Uighur Muslims in China's western region of Xinjiang, according to a report published Thursday.