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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
October 20, 2021

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Business and Finance, Censorship, Global Technology

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Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, censorship, China, Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), LinkedIn}

LinkedIn Says Goodbye to China

_{If the blasé business world of LinkedIn cannot pass the Cyberspace Administration of China’s rules, then what platform can?} _{Heather Zeiger

October 20, 2021

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Business and Finance, Censorship, Global Technology}

LinkedIn announced that it will no longer host social media and content sharing in China. Instead, it’s China-only app will be a job-board site. This comes after LinkedIn received criticism for blocking certain researcher profiles in China as well as human rights advocates and journalists who write on China. LinkedIn, which was bought by Microsoft in 2016, was one of the only U.S.-based social media outlets still operating within China. Twitter, Facebook (including Instagram, WhatsApp), and YouTube (owned by Alphabet, Inc.) are banned. Google (also owned by Alphabet, Inc.) left in 2010. Signal and Clubhouse were banned in 2021. Other apps, such as TikTok (owned by ByteDance, Inc.) have their own Chinese version that complies with censors and data regulators. Read More ›

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
August 30, 2021

Categorized
Business and Finance, Data Privacy, Global Technology, Law

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Algorithms, Big Data, China, China Consumers Administration (CAC), Chinese Communist Party (CCP), consumer data laws, critical information infrastructure, Critical Information Infrastructure Security Protection Regulations, Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), data privacy laws, Data Security Law, Didi Global Inc., European Union, Facial Recognition, General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), Jack Ma, Personal Information Protection Law, Xi Jinping}

China’s Data Laws Restrict Businesses and Favor the State

_{The Data Security Law and the Personal Information Protection Law are part of the Chinese government’s plan to steer the private sector toward State goals} _{Heather Zeiger

August 30, 2021

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Business and Finance, Data Privacy, Global Technology, Law}

In previous articles, I looked at how the Chinese government is reigning in China’s tech sector first of Jack Ma and Ant Group’s initial public offering on the Shenzhen and Hong Kong stock exchanges and then Didi Global, Inc. The Chinese government has since passed two data laws and released an update that clarifies the 2017 Cybersecurity Law. The result is better protections of citizens’ data from being used, exploited, or sold by private companies, and encroaching government presumption of the private sector in which the State has virtually unrestricted access to and jurisdiction over private companies’ data. Clarification of the 2017 Cybersecurity Law The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) gained oversight powers over other state agencies in 2014 under Xi Jinping. Jane Read More ›

Padlock, China flag on a smartphone and China map, symbolizing the Great Firewall of China concept or GFW and all extreme Internet censorship in China

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
April 28, 2021

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Censorship

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Academy Awards, Anders Hammer, China, Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Chloé Zhao, Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), Do Not Split (film), Hong Kong, Internet Archive, Nomad (film), Oscars, Stanley Rosen, Wayback Machine}

The Academy Award Goes to… 404

_{Chinese citizens were suddenly no longer allowed to know of an Oscar for Best Director won by a Beijing-born woman, let alone see the film} _{Heather Zeiger

April 28, 2021

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Arts & Culture, Censorship}

As the hoopla from the 92nd Academy Awards last weekend fades, if you search for “Chloe Zhao” on Google, you’ll discover a curious thing: She is the first Asian director and second female director to win an Academy Award for best director, for her film Nomadland. Search for “Chloe Zhao” or her Chinese name, “Zhao Ting,” on Baidu in China and you’ll find “only scattered links to deleted articles about the Academy Award honor” (Wall Street Journal, April 26, 2021). Posts on Weibo and WeChat congratulating her were removed within minutes of the announcement of her win for best director. Rewriting the story in the U.S. Zhao (pictured) was born in Beijing, went to a boarding school in the U.K., Read More ›