Publications
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.
This report demonstrates the technical underpinnings of how WeChat image censorship operates and suggests possible evasion strategies.
This report demonstrates the technical underpinnings of how WeChat image censorship operates and suggests possible evasion strategies.
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.
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.