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We have to manage portal websites like our military. The military should not fall into the hands of foreign capital or be managed under the foreign capital-cooperation mode. The same principal should be applied to the Internet.

Well-Known Chinese Leftist Advocates Militarized Internet

Would you eat rice if you were in China? This map shows China’s widespread rice pollution.The Chinese government’s official mouthpiece Xinhua News Agency ran a piece that suggested people should diversify their rice sources to lower their risk of exposure to pollution. By eating all types of toxic food, we won’t die from one kind of toxic food. More here.

Would you eat rice if you were in China?

This map shows China’s widespread rice pollution.

The Chinese government’s official mouthpiece Xinhua News Agency ran a piece that suggested people should diversify their rice sources to lower their risk of exposure to pollution.

By eating all types of toxic food, we won’t die from one kind of toxic food.

More here.

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In the Internet age, the greatest long-term threat to a genuinely citizen-centric society — a world in which technology and government serve citizens instead of the other way around — looks less like Orwell’s 1984, and more like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World: a world in which our desire for security, entertainment, and material comfort is manipulated to the point that we all voluntarily and eagerly submit to subjugation

China’s biggest e-commerce firm Alibaba Group announced  on April 29, 2013 that it would acquire an 18 percent stake in Sina Weibo for 586 million US dollars, a deal that could reshape the country’s Internet landscape. Sina Weibo is China’s most popular Twitter-like microblogging platform with over 500 million user accounts, but it has yet to find a profitable business model.

How Social Commerce Tightens China’s Grip on the Internet

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“Without any reliable explanation or sincere attitude to solve problems, how can the public feel at ease?” Hundreds of Kunming residents protested plans for a chemical refinery near the southern Chinese city, the second major demonstration against the project despite official efforts to stem further protest. China’s Kunming Residents Stage Another Chemical Plant Protest

“Without any reliable explanation or sincere attitude to solve problems, how can the public feel at ease?”

Hundreds of Kunming residents protested plans for a chemical refinery near the southern Chinese city, the second major demonstration against the project despite official efforts to stem further protest.

China’s Kunming Residents Stage Another Chemical Plant Protest

“This is a joke. Young people nowadays do not belong to the old time, they can’t be f**king brainwashed.” A prominent Chinese law professor recently revealed in his microblog on popular Twitter-like site Sina Weibo that the Chinese government has imposed a policy on university professors instructing them not to teach seven subjects, including freedom of the press, past mistakes of the communist party, and citizen rights. Zhang’s Weibo account was deleted soon after and the term “Seven Speak-Nots” (七不講) has been blocked on major social media in China. Chinese Government Bans Seven ‘Speak-Not’ Subjects

“This is a joke. Young people nowadays do not belong to the old time, they can’t be f**king brainwashed.”

A prominent Chinese law professor recently revealed in his microblog on popular Twitter-like site Sina Weibo that the Chinese government has imposed a policy on university professors instructing them not to teach seven subjects, including freedom of the press, past mistakes of the communist party, and citizen rights.

Zhang’s Weibo account was deleted soon after and the term “Seven Speak-Nots” (七不講) has been blocked on major social media in China.

Chinese Government Bans Seven ‘Speak-Not’ Subjects

In addition to a petition asking the US to deport a former suspect in an unsolved poisoning case, Chinese netizens have submitted petitions to the White House website asking to officially define the taste of bean curd stew, to improve the meal subsidies of media company Sina’s staff, and to cancel university exams. Chinese Web Floods White House with Petitions

In addition to a petition asking the US to deport a former suspect in an unsolved poisoning case, Chinese netizens have submitted petitions to the White House website asking to officially define the taste of bean curd stew, to improve the meal subsidies of media company Sina’s staff, and to cancel university exams.

Chinese Web Floods White House with Petitions

“Block one Murong Xuecun, and thousands of ‘Murong Xuecun’ will appear. This is the strength of freedom.” The online Sina Weibo microblogging account of Murong Xuecun, one of China’s most popular writers and one of the country’s foremost critics of censorship, has been deleted from the site, suspected to be part of the government’s efforts to crack down on online rumors by targeting high-profile users. Murong’s account, which had more than 1.1 million followers, was taken down from the Twitter-link website on May 11, 2013. His writing as well as his microblogging discusses social issues in contemporary China such as corruption and media censorship. Popular Chinese Writer’s Microblog Scrubbed from Sina Weibo

“Block one Murong Xuecun, and thousands of ‘Murong Xuecun’ will appear. This is the strength of freedom.”

The online Sina Weibo microblogging account of Murong Xuecun, one of China’s most popular writers and one of the country’s foremost critics of censorship, has been deleted from the site, suspected to be part of the government’s efforts to crack down on online rumors by targeting high-profile users.

Murong’s account, which had more than 1.1 million followers, was taken down from the Twitter-link website on May 11, 2013. His writing as well as his microblogging discusses social issues in contemporary China such as corruption and media censorship.

Popular Chinese Writer’s Microblog Scrubbed from Sina Weibo

“Such a big incident and not a single media outlet reported on it. The Chinese microblogs have filtered all the keywords related to the case. This is so corrupted.” Thousands of people took to the streets in Beijing on May 8, 2013, in response to the suspicious death of a young migrant worker named Yuan Liya. Currently, all information regarding the death of Yuan Liya is unsearchable online in China. The 22-year-old woman’s body was found lying outside Wenjing Shopping Mall around midnight on May 3. Yuan had come to Beijing to find work to support her family in Anhui. Both Yuan’s boyfriend and mother have demanded the Beijing police release the CCTV recording of Yuan’s death. However, the Beijing police claim that the case was a suicide and refuse any further investigation. Among the thousands of protesters, most are migrants from Anhui province who work in Beijing. Young Woman’s Suspicious Death Triggers Rare Protests in Beijing

“Such a big incident and not a single media outlet reported on it. The Chinese microblogs have filtered all the keywords related to the case. This is so corrupted.”

Thousands of people took to the streets in Beijing on May 8, 2013, in response to the suspicious death of a young migrant worker named Yuan Liya. Currently, all information regarding the death of Yuan Liya is unsearchable online in China.

The 22-year-old woman’s body was found lying outside Wenjing Shopping Mall around midnight on May 3. Yuan had come to Beijing to find work to support her family in Anhui. Both Yuan’s boyfriend and mother have demanded the Beijing police release the CCTV recording of Yuan’s death. However, the Beijing police claim that the case was a suicide and refuse any further investigation.

Among the thousands of protesters, most are migrants from Anhui province who work in Beijing.

Young Woman’s Suspicious Death Triggers Rare Protests in Beijing

“Media control, cell phone signals cut off, the police who are supposed to defend the safety of the people didn’t protect the people, ‘XX petrochemical refinery, get out of Kunming!’” Residents of China’s southwestern Kunming city took to the streets on May 4, 2013 to protest against the potential production of a toxic chemical at a nearby factory. According to state media, the China National Petroleum Corporation plans to build a chemical plant in the nearby town of Anning to produce 500,000 tonnes of paraxylene (PX) used to make fabric. Close to 3,000 people gathered in the city center to protest against the dangers of a possible PX spill. China’s state media kept the news of the protest quiet, and online censors have aggressively deleted information and photos about the demonstration on popular microblogging site Sina Weibo since May 4, 2013. Many Web users switched their Weibo profile photos to an image of “Kunming PX” crossed-out to show support. Kunming is well-known for its flowers and plants thanks to its perpetual spring-like weather. It is one of the few Chinese cities that regularly enjoy clear blue skies. China Censors Chemical Plant Protest

“Media control, cell phone signals cut off, the police who are supposed to defend the safety of the people didn’t protect the people, ‘XX petrochemical refinery, get out of Kunming!’”

Residents of China’s southwestern Kunming city took to the streets on May 4, 2013 to protest against the potential production of a toxic chemical at a nearby factory.

According to state media, the China National Petroleum Corporation plans to build a chemical plant in the nearby town of Anning to produce 500,000 tonnes of paraxylene (PX) used to make fabric. Close to 3,000 people gathered in the city center to protest against the dangers of a possible PX spill.

China’s state media kept the news of the protest quiet, and online censors have aggressively deleted information and photos about the demonstration on popular microblogging site Sina Weibo since May 4, 2013. Many Web users switched their Weibo profile photos to an image of “Kunming PX” crossed-out to show support.

Kunming is well-known for its flowers and plants thanks to its perpetual spring-like weather. It is one of the few Chinese cities that regularly enjoy clear blue skies.

China Censors Chemical Plant Protest

In the eyes of western countries, terrorist attacks only happen in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan?

On April 23 2013, a week after the Boston terrorist attack, another terror incident took place in Bachu County of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in which 15 police officers and community workers were killed and 6 suspects were shot dead.

The incident was reported as “terrorist attack” in local Chinese media while some western media namely BBC Chinese and VOA Chinese maintained some skepticism on the nature of incident. In response the state controlled media, Global Times, accused western media of bias against China in their reporting and won many echoes in Chinese social media.

However, the Uyghur community also has their doubts and have pleaded with the Chinese authorities to disclose all the details of what had exactly happened in Bachu.

Chinese and Western Media Bias Claims in Xinjiang “Terrorist Attack”

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