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Chinese authorities arrested Xu Zhiyong, a legal scholar and activist who called on President Xi Jinping to resign for mishandling the COVID-19 outbreak.

China Locks Up Activist Who Criticized State’s COVID-19 Response

By Dan Robitzski

In the face of a worsening public health crisis, the Chinese government is censoring social media and articles about the Wuhan virus.

China Censored Info About Growing Pandemic on Social Media

By Dan Robitzski

YouTube deleted hundreds of cryptocurrency videos earlier this week. Now it says they're back and called the whole thing a mistake.

YouTube Calls Mass Deletion of Cryptocurrency Videos a Mistake

By Dan Robitzski

Iran is the latest country to propose its own state-run internet, a tool that would effectively end online freedom and crush protests.

Iran’s President Wants to Build a State-Controlled Internet

By Dan Robitzski

After a TikTok video criticizing China's systematic anti-Muslim discrimination went viral, its creator found herself locked out of her account.

TikTok Bans 17-Year-Old for Criticizing China

By Dan Robitzski

The Chinese government has a startling level of control over TikTok, according to leaked documents that reveal how the government censors political posts.

TikTok Mods Censor App for China, Scrubbing Tiananmen Square

By Dan Robitzski

The editor of Chinese state-backed newspaper, the Global Times, protested government censorhip in a Weibo post that was soon deleted.

Editor of Chinese Paper Complains About Censorship, Gets Censored

By Dan Robitzski

British fishmonger Rex Goldsmith found that Instagram was censoring his photos for featuring "offensive content" twice in two weeks.

Instagram Keeps Accidentally Flagging Fish Photos as Offensive

By Kristin Houser

Several national governments are using country-wide internet shutoffs and censorship to squash internal dissent and censor their critics.

Governments Are Shutting off the Internet to Squash Dissent

By Dan Robitzski

The Chinese government has extended its Wikipedia ban to include all available languages of the online encyclopedia, the Wikimedia foundation has confirmed.

China’s Government Just Blocked the Entirety of Wikipedia

By Kristin Houser

At roughly the same time blockbuster battle royale shooter PUBG disappeared for Chinese gamers, a new government friendly version of the game was announced.

China Replaces PUBG With Bizarre, Propaganda-Filled Clone

By Victor Tangermann

A new story reveals how Chinese live-streaming company Inke uses a combination of human moderators and AI to facilitate government censorship.

China Is Trying to Scrub Bikinis and Smoking From the Internet

By Kristin Houser

A study into Chinese censorship revealed that the nation doesn't want its citizens conversing about He Jiankui's genetically edited babies.

China Is Censoring “Genetically Edited Babies” on Social Media

By Kristin Houser

The Bangladeshi government is scrubbing the internet of porn. But it's also monitoring people's personal social media accounts for provocative images.

Bangladesh Declares “War on Pornography,” Blocks TikTok

By Dan Robitzski

Google Is Censoring Search Results to Hide Russian Corruption

Google Is Censoring Search Results to Hide Russian Corruption

By Dan Robitzski

China is sharing its censorship and surveillance knowledge with other nations, including many in Africa, according to a new report.

China Is Helping African Nations Spy on Their Citizens

By Kristin Houser

The UK Government Is Planning to Regulate Hate Speech Online

The UK Government Is Planning to Regulate Hate Speech Online

By Victor Tangermann

The World of the Future Will Have Two Separate Internets, Former Google CEO Predicts

The World of the Future Will Have Two Separate Internets, Former Google CEO Predicts

By Dan Robitzski

Leaked documents reveal Google's plan to launch a censored search engine in China, a nation that strictly monitors the content its citizens can access.

Google’s Censored Chinese Search Engine Shows It’s No Longer Afraid of U.S. Backlash

By Kristin Houser

Health & Medicine

CDC Director: There Are No Banned Words at the CDC. Period.

By Claudia Geib

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Leaked Emails Appear to Instruct USDA Staff Not to Use Climate Change and Related Terms

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China Just Made VPNs Illegal for Internet Users