A digital firewall in Myanmar, built with guns and wire cutters
The military has repeatedly shut off the internet, isolating a country that had only in the past few years linked to the outside world.
China pulls BBC World News off air after report on Uighur minority
In an overnight statement, Beijing's National Radio and Television Administration said BBC World News reports about China were found to "seriously violate" broadcast guidelines.
The Great Firewall cracked, briefly. A people shined through.
For years, the Chinese government has prevented its 1.4 billion people from speaking freely online. Then, for a precious few days, that wall was breached.
The party is over at Clubhouse, the app that had China talking
The repression of Muslim Uighurs, the Tiananmen Square crackdown and S&M hook-ups — nothing was off-limits in the rambunctious, unfiltered chatrooms of Clubhouse, before China's censors silenced the conversation. For around a week, robust, open discussion on China pinballed across the American audio app, recently ...
Clubhouse app offers Chinese rare glimpse of censor-free debate
The U.S. app Clubhouse erupted among Chinese social-media users over the weekend, with thousands joining discussions on contentious subjects such as Taiwan and Xinjiang undisturbed by Beijing’s censors. On the invite-only, audio-based social app where users host informal conversations, Chinese-speaking communities from around the world ...
U.S. media outlets get editors back post-Trump but worry about damage
Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia are getting back experienced editors who were pushed aside by Donald Trump's appointees as the U.S. outlets say they hope the tumult will not tarnish their credibility. Michael Pack, a producer of conservative films whom Trump tapped ...
Tech censorship is the real gift to Putin
Authoritarians these days have to pay lip service to freedom of speech; what the social media platforms have done takes that concern out of the equation.
As Trump clashes with Big Tech, China’s censored internet takes his side
Blurring the distinction between companies and government, official propaganda outlets use Trump’s ouster from Twitter and Facebook to argue that nobody in the world enjoys free speech.
Facebook and Twitter crackdown around U.S. Capitol siege is too little, too late
For weeks, content on big tech platforms Facebook, Twitter and YouTube as well as upstart fringe social networks foretold the storming of the U.S Capitol.
WikiLeaks’ Assange denied bail in London; judge says he could abscond
Assange on Monday won an attempt to stop his extradition to the United States to face 18 criminal charges of breaking an espionage law and conspiring to hack government computers.
U.K. court rejects extradition of 'suicide risk' Assange to U.S.
The judge at London's Old Bailey denied his lawyers' arguments that the case was political and an assault on journalism and freedom of speech.
