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Word of the Week: Seven Don’t Mentions
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online...
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Censorship Instructions for Online Forums
Weibo wasn’t the only social media platform punished after coup rumors spread this March. An apparently leaked “urgent notice” to online forum managers was posted to the Chinese tech site e553.com on...
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Emergency Notice to Hotels
Google+ user Fang Zhongyong (方仲永) wrote simply of this notice he posted on September 28, “A friend sent me this internal notice, which he heard is for the 18th Party Congress.” The notice mentions...
View ArticleNSA Whistleblower Seeks Safety in Hong Kong (Updated)
The leak that recently revealed the U.S. National Security Agency’s court-ordered surveillance of Verizon call detail records, as well as U.S. Internet firms’ alleged cooperation with government...
View ArticleInside the NSA’s Ultra-Secret China Hacking Group
Among the series of stories published in The Guardian last week based on files leaked by former CIA and NSA contractor Edward Snowden, one report highlighted a secret directive to identify potential...
View ArticleChina Tightens Information Sharing Rules for Media
Update: For a full translation of the SAPPRFT regulations covered below, see the Chinalawtranslate Community Translation Project. The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and...
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Minitrue: Rules for Media on State Secrets
The following censorship instruction, issued to the media by government authorities, has been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. Put the...
View ArticleTranslation: Measures on the Management of News Media
The Chinalawtranslate Community Translation Project has translated the recently announced State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television rules on information sharing for...
View ArticleZhanggong Leaks: History is the Best Judge
Blogger “Xiaolan” has leaked an archive of over 2,700 email communications from the Internet Information Office of Zhanggong District, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi from 2013 and 2014. Xiaolan calls the leak...
View ArticleChina’s Internet Propaganda Machine Revealed
Blogger “Xiaolan” recently leaked a large archive of email correspondence from the Internet Information Office of Zhanggong District, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi from 2013 and 2014. Described as “evidence of...
View ArticleJournalist Gao Yu Granted Medical Release
Veteran journalist Gao Yu, who was sentenced to seven years in prison in April for allegedly leaking an internal Party document, was granted a sentence reduction and medical release on Thursday, The...
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A Leaked Glimpse of “Public Sentiment Guidance” Plans [Updated]
A leaked voice message and series of screenshots from WeChat Enterprise appears to reveal a “public sentiment guidance” meeting by members of the so-called “Fifty Cent Party.” Some of the screen names...
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Minitrue 2017: July—Directive Leaks Slow to a Halt
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government authorities in 2017, and then leaked and distributed online. The names of issuing bodies have been...
View ArticleNYT: Leaked Documents Suggest Dissent on Xinjiang Detentions
On Saturday, The New York Times published a report by Austin Ramzy and Chris Buckley based on 403 pages of leaked documents on China’s ongoing mass detention campaign in Xinjiang. The 24 documents...
View ArticleLeaked Karakax List Exposes “System of Targeted Cultural Genocide” in Xinjiang
An ongoing mass detention campaign in Xinjiang, itself part of a longer-running crackdown aimed squarely at mitigating elements of local Uyghur culture and religiosity, has detained as many as two...
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