The editors at Tea Leaf Nation talk about what China’s new internet regulations mean for microbloggers, speculate on Twitter’s future in China, and explain some of the techniques Chinese netizens are using to work around regulations and censorship.
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In light of the new year’s Lantern Festival, we take a look back at China’s heightened crackdown on writers, journalists and activists in 2011. Included is an infographic with a timeline detailing major arrests and protests of the last year.
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The Venezuelan state media under President Hugo Chávez, says veteran journalist Gregorio Salazar, seeks to establish ‘information hegemony’ by systematically closing private media outlets and using hacking and phone tapping to intimidate the media, dissidents and the opposition.
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