2020/11/06 |
Chinese-Style Censorship Is No Fix for the Covid-19 Infodemic
China’s control has turned its internet environment into a hotbed of distorted information and ultra-nationalistic narratives.
2020/04/08 |
Coronavirus: How Effective Is Singapore’s Anti-Fake News Law?
The so-called anti-fake news law in Singapore — POFMA — doesn't stop all misinformation, while leaving in place a powerful mechanism that can be abused when the crisis is over.
2020/03/24 |
Coronavirus Furthers Chinese-Style Internet Censorship in Singapore
Singapore's use of its anti-misinformation law resembles Chinese-style censorship.
2018/12/14 |
China's Caging of Domestic Twitterati Ominous for Overseas Users
One Twitter user said that using the social messaging service in China is now 'more dangerous than street demonstrations.'
2018/09/12 |
Don't Be Evil? Reconciling Google's China Censorship Dilemma
Google's plans to relaunch in China violate the company's longstanding motto: 'Don't be evil.'
2018/06/27 |
CHINA: Communist Party Battles to Have Last Laugh on Web Censorship
Communist Party moves to shut down a satirical app are squeezing Chinese people's right to laugh.
2018/05/10 |
The Ban that Never Was: Peppa Pig, AI and Porkie Pies
AI-inspired Peppa content pushed an online publishing platform into deep water in China, but the headlines missed a deeper argument over whether the state can or should rule on what media people consume.
2018/04/06 |
MYANMAR: Online Defamation Cases Are Silencing Critics
Civil society groups are trying to blow the lid off a de-facto censorship law in Myanmar as defamation cases increase under the democratically elected government.
2018/02/07 |
Taking Action on #MeToo in China
Despite a campaign to quell the circulation of the meme on social media, various institutions are putting mechanisms in place to counter sexual harassment.
2018/01/02 |
Threats to Online Expression Plague South Asia
From internet shutdowns to killings of journalists, clampdowns on internet freedoms are on the rise across the region.
2017/12/21 |
Dirty GIFs and Seditious Memes are Under Fire in Indonesia
Authorities threatened to block WhatsApp if the messenger app did not block 'obscene' content.
2017/12/12 |
OPINION: Australia Must Confront China's Academic Interference
The recent decision not to publish the book "Silent Invasion" which examines the growing and surreptitious CCP influence in Australia, raises alarming questions for academic freedom, public discourse, and publishing in Australia.
2017/11/30 |
China Tightens Grip in Xinjiang amid Belt and Road
Comprehensive control of 'stability' in Xinjiang has become a heightened strategic imperative with the launch of China's Belt and Road initiative.
2017/11/29 |
Lee Ming-che's Sentence Chills Taiwan NGOs
Lee Ming-che's sentencing to five years in prison in China for the crime of 'subversion' has had a marked chilling effect on the actions and communications of Taiwan's NGOs. The case also suggests Taiwan's wider population faces an insidious dilemma: whether or not to self-censor.
2017/11/19 |
Fearing Beijing's Ire, the Australian Publishing Industry is Censoring Itself
It seems that China has not actually taken any action to influence this decision, but publishers are still playing it safe.
2017/11/03 |
Xi's 'New Era' Censorship Bans Books, Curbs Curiosity
'What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who would want to read one.' The ideological conformity of the New Era hints at a frightening prospect: that both Orwell and Huxley's fears could be realized simultaneously in Xi Jinping's China.
2017/08/27 |
'The King and I' Re-Imagined: Thailand's Dangerous Libel Laws
A U.S. production of The King and I is a reminder of lèse majesté laws in Thailand, and the renewed importance of artistic free expression amid Trump’s call for tightening of libel laws.
2017/08/25 |
The Cambridge Saga and Upholding Western Academic Values in the Face of Chinese Censors
It goes without saying that from the point of view of the integrity of the academic endeavour CUP has made the right decision. While we wait to see how CUP’s business in China may be affected