Radio Free Asia reports: "Broadband customers across China have [lashed] out at software provided by the country’s biggest Internet Service Provider (ISP), saying it limits their autonomy online. Forums and chatrooms have been buzzing with annoyed comments from customers of...

"The price of Internet satire in China is going up. A major Chinese city is threatening to fine web surfers up to $625 for online defamation amid a surge in short satirical Internet films, an official news report said Monday." ...

As reported by the South China Morning Post, Chinese cyber-dissident Guo Qizhen "was jailed for four years for subversion on Tuesday after posting politically sensitive essays on the Internet." Reporters Without Borders has condemned the sentence, "the eighth...

Human Rights Watch has reported the closure of blogs maintained by the Tibetan intellectual Oeser, "the first Tibetan writer inside the mainland to openly raise in Chinese critical questions about China's role in Tibet and to urge Beijing to negotiate...

OpenNet Initiative: Bulletin 012 July 6, 2006 Last Updated: July 5, 2006 Contents - Summary - Background - Regulations Summary - Specific Provisions of Regulations - Implications - Conclusion Summary China's new regulations for Internet news content significantly...

Google.cn is a Chinese language search service targeted towards users in the People's Republic of China. It was launched on January 25 2006 and it filters search requests to content deemed to be "sensitive" by the government of China. (You can compare...

Following a trend of Western companies filtering content in China, Skype's CEO admits that the company's partner in China filters text messages. ONI has reported on China's filtering of multiple modes of on-line communication -...

Today we released a bulletin analyzing the effects of China's mandatory website registration regulation on website owners and bloggers. The bulletin analyzes the effectiveness of the regulation’s legal provisions and considers its practical impact on Chinese users. If you'd like...

OpenNet Initiative: Bulletin 011 Last Updated: February 22,2006 China has recently moved to require all non-commercial Web sites to register with its Ministry of Information Industry (MII)(1). The MII began closing non-registered Web sites at the end of December2005. The OpenNet Initiative (ONI)...

Google has opened a new Chinese-language search engine at www.google.cn that filters out results from sites that are considered “sensitive” by the Chinese government. In addition to filtering news.bbc.co.uk search results are also filtered for the human right groups hrw.org...