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被滅聲的周年紀念:中國直播軟件審查香港六四紀念及本土社運
今年是中國1989年天安門民主運動的30週年紀念。當年,學生自發舉行一系列遊行示威,呼籲實施民主改革,中共領導人則選擇使用武力鎮壓運動。中國紅十字會稱有2700名民眾在武力鎮壓中身亡,但有不少研究機構指出死傷人數遠不止這個。在2014年解密的一份美國政府機密文件顯示,中國內部統計的死亡人數達10,454人。
Censored Commemoration: Chinese Live Streaming Platform YY Focuses Censorship on June 4 Memorials and Activism in Hong Kong
In the days leading up to the 30th anniversary of June 4 1989, YY, a popular live streaming platform in mainland China, updated its keyword blacklists with content focused on Democracy Movement related memorials and activism in Hong Kong.
Iranian Censorship Strategy Shows Increasing Political Sophistication, Research Reveals
Published by the Review of Policy Research, this paper by the Citizen Lab’s Ron Deibert, Joshua Oliver, and Adam Senft takes a deep dive into data provided by the circumvention tool Psiphon to reveal Iran’s increasingly sophisticated Internet blocking strategy around elections.
An analysis of censorship in Chinese open source projects
A new paper by the Citizen Lab investigates how Chinese censorship reaches independent developers and reveals that, while developers include censorship lists in open source projects, there is little apparent similarity in these blacklists, raising several questions about their origins.