Politics, Rumors, and Ambiguity: Tracking Censorship on WeChat’s Public Accounts Platform
This report is an analysis of the types of content removed by WeChat on its public accounts (also known as “official accounts”) blogging platform.
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Jason Q. Ng on China’s censorship of online sexual innuendo, messaging applications, and event coverage
China’s censorship of social media platforms has largely been focused on speech that targets or criticizes the government, until recently. The Cyberspace Administration of China’s new regulations will target sexual innuendo, in particular 25 of the most popular “dirty words” in China.
7iber featured in Newsweek for combatting censorship in Jordan
Cyber Stewards Network partner 7iber marked it’s founding anniversary on Jordan’s independence day by highlighting the poor state of press freedom and women’s rights in the country.
Open letter to Hacking Team
Citizen Lab is sending an open letter to Hacking Team, providing a copy of our latest report on the company and highlighting our reasons for concern from these latest findings.
Citizen Lab at RightsCon 2015
The Citizen Lab will be hosting two sessions, “Asia Chats” and “Filtering Free Expression,” at the RightsCon 2015 conference in Manila, Philippines.
Cyber Stewards at RightsCon 2015
The Citizen Lab will be hosting two sessions, “Asia Chats” and “Filtering Free Expression,” at the RightsCon 2015 conference in Manila, Philippines.
Forbes on Citizen Lab’s Syria research
An article by Forbes magazine discusses FireEye’s recent report on Syria, authored by Daniel Regalado, Citizen Lab Technical Advisory Board member Nart Villeneuve, and Citizen Lab Research Fellow John Scott Railton.