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Managing the Message: What you can’t say about the 19th National Communist Party Congress on WeChat
The 19th National Communist Party Congress was held from October 18-24 2017. WeChat, China’s most popular chat app, blocked a broad range of content related to the Congress.
Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, its Causes, and Consequences
In preparation for the Special Rapporteur’s presentation to the UNHRC next June, the submission reviews some of the barriers to addressing problems of technology-facilitated violence, abuse, and harassment against women and girls; contextualizes the complicated environment within which online harassment operates; and suggests recommendations to address, mitigate, and remedy these issues.
Keyword Censorship in Chinese Mobile Games
In a recent paper presented at FOCI, Citizen Lab researchers investigate the nature of keyword filtering in Chinese mobile games, supporting a decentralized framework of censorship.
勿忘晓波：微信和微博针对刘晓波逝世的信息审查之分析
加拿大多伦多大学公民实验室（Citizen Lab）研究了微信和微博针对刘晓波逝世的信息审查，初步分析显示，在刘晓波去世後审查力度大幅增加，以至于任何对刘晓波的讨论乃至简单提及也不被允许.
Remembering Liu Xiaobo: Analyzing censorship of the death of Liu Xiaobo on WeChat and Weibo
WeChat and Sina Weibo adapted and evolved their censorship efforts in response to the death of Liu Xiaobo.