China Censorship Update: Sept. 15, 2017
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)
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John P. Gamboa
John is a Technical Success Manager at WP Engine. Before moving to Austin, John lived in South Korea and China for the better part of four years. His life as an amateur Chinese web censorship expert, traveler, map nerd and beer geek can be found on this site.
