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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
January 20, 2021

Categorized
Technocracy

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censorship, China, Chinese Communist Party (CCP), COVID-19, Cyberspace Administration of China, Fang Fang, Featured, Great Firewall, Journalists, Zhang Zhan}

Lawyer Turned Citizen Journalist in China Turns Up Again—in Jail

_{She has been sentenced to four years in prison for “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble,” a crime in China} _{Heather Zeiger

January 20, 2021

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Technocracy}

Lawyer-turned-citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, 37, went missing on May 15 after documenting on Youtube, Twitter, and WeChat what she saw in Wuhan during the early days of the SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) pandemic. She has now been sentenced to four years in prison for “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble.” Zhang had already been detained for supporting the 2019 Hong Kong protests, which likely played into her harsh sentence. So far, 47 journalists have been jailed for reporting on COVID-19 in China. YouTube and Twitter are inaccessible within China because of the Great Firewall which allows the Communist Party of China (CCP) to control the information that comes into and goes out of the country. Within the Great Firewall journalists must adhere Read More ›

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
April 23, 2020

Categorized
Global Technology, Medicine and Health

Tagged
___longform, China, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Featured, Journalists, Medical doctors, Wuhan}

COVID-19: Getting to the Bottom of What Happened in China

_{China knowingly violated the terms of a World Health Organization (WHO) disclosure agreement} _{Heather Zeiger

April 23, 2020

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Global Technology, Medicine and Health}

It is widely recognized that medical professionals and journalists in China are being silenced if they publish any information about COVID-19 that contradicts the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s official narrative. But now mainland Chinese scientists must ensure that their research publications also toe the CCP party line. If we sift carefully, however, we can uncover real information.

Can a Totalitarian State Be an Information Society?

_{Beijing’s clumsy social media campaigns against democracy in Hong Kong and Taiwan have failed but attempts to control local media are ramping up} _{Heather Zeiger

January 18, 2020

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Global Technology, Social Media, Surveillance}

Xi believes that the Western values of a free press, free speech, and separation of powers contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union and that China must avoid them so as not to succumb to the same fate. But the Soviet Union fell just before the internet became today’s information superhighway.

Serious Media In China Have Gone Strangely Silent

_{With a compulsory new app, the government can potentially access journalists’ phones, both for surveillance and capturing data} _{Heather Zeiger

January 14, 2020

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Surveillance}

Liu Hu sums up the scene in a few words: “Outside of China, journalists are fired for writing false reports… Inside China, they are fired for telling the truth.”