No update for last week. Sorry about that! Today I’ll be dumping a handful of links with little commentary for the sake of brevity. Lots of discussion about blocked US tech companies trying to get back into the the Chinese market. The VPN crusade seems to be still in full force, and there’s some big stuff about actual fake news:
- Chinese man jailed for helping net users evade state blocks (BBC)
- Blocked in China, Facebook Is Said to Seek a Shanghai Office (The New York Times)
- Google Continues to Hire in China Even as Search Remains Blocked (Bloomberg)
- China’s Latest Crackdown on Message Groups Chills WeChat Users (Bloomberg)
- China Is Obsessed With Livestreaming and the Censors Are Racing to Keep Up (Bloomberg)
- A Correspondent’s Guide To Making Fake News in China (China Data Insider)
- China’s Regulatory Crackdown Forces More Bitcoin Exchange Closures (Bitcoin.com)
