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Freedom House – TNR Watch: Cyberattacks as a Tactic of Digital Transnational Repression freedomhouse.org/article/tnr-...
TNR Watch: Cyberattacks as a Tactic of Digital Transnational Repression
A new report from Cloudflare, a company that provides cybersecurity services to internet providers, highlights the array of digital transnational repression tactics employed against exile media outlet...
freedomhouse.org
CDT’s “404 Deleted Content Archive” Summary for June 2026 Tiananmen anniversary; animal torture protests; the growth of "flexible employment"; "siphon-style enforcement"; and the state of Chinese soccer
CDT’s “404 Deleted Content Archive” Summary for June 2026
CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we publish a summary of content
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Freedom House – TNR Watch: Cyberattacks as a Tactic of Digital Transnational Repression freedomhouse.org/article/tnr-...
TNR Watch: Cyberattacks as a Tactic of Digital Transnational Repression
A new report from Cloudflare, a company that provides cybersecurity services to internet providers, highlights the array of digital transnational repression tactics employed against exile media outlet...
freedomhouse.org
CDT’s “404 Deleted Content Archive” Summary for June 2026 Tiananmen anniversary; animal torture protests; the growth of "flexible employment"; "siphon-style enforcement"; and the state of Chinese soccer
CDT’s “404 Deleted Content Archive” Summary for June 2026
CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we publish a summary of content
chinadigitaltimes.net
Translation: No Scaling the Great Firewall in the Library "It has so far been verified that the telephone numbers of those involved include: 155XXXX9172; 197XXXX2090; and 155XXXX7044."
Translation: No Scaling the Great Firewall in the Library
The notice below was issued by the Hunan Library, a provincial institution located in Changsha. It announces the temporary suspension of library Wi-Fi in
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Translation: No Scaling the Great Firewall in the Library "It has so far been verified that the telephone numbers of those involved include: 155XXXX9172; 197XXXX2090; and 155XXXX7044."
Translation: No Scaling the Great Firewall in the Library
The notice below was issued by the Hunan Library, a provincial institution located in Changsha. It announces the temporary suspension of library Wi-Fi in
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Translations: "Sometimes Forgetting Is as Terrible as the Disaster." Censored Reflections on the Deadly Zhengzhou Floods, Five Years On "Forgetting often means that an essentially identical man-made disaster occurs again; that an accident investigation report becomes just a blank piece of paper."
Translations: "Sometimes Forgetting Is as Terrible as the Disaster." Censored Reflections on the Deadly Zhengzhou Floods, Five Years On
Recent weeks have seen extreme weather across central and southern China, particularly in Guangxi, where a dam breach led to at least 26 deaths. These events
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Translations: On Foreign and Domestic Media and "Man-Made Problems Lurking Behind Natural Disasters" "All of this ought to be common sense by now. But here we are in 2026, and we’re having to reiterate it yet again, which is truly lamentable."
Translations: On Foreign and Domestic Media and "Man-Made Problems Lurking Behind Natural Disasters"
Disaster preparedness and disaster-relief efforts are hot topics on Chinese social media as the country braces for as many as three new typhoons in the next
chinadigitaltimes.net
Translations: "Sometimes Forgetting Is as Terrible as the Disaster." Censored Reflections on the Deadly Zhengzhou Floods, Five Years On "Forgetting often means that an essentially identical man-made disaster occurs again; that an accident investigation report becomes just a blank piece of paper."
Translations: "Sometimes Forgetting Is as Terrible as the Disaster." Censored Reflections on the Deadly Zhengzhou Floods, Five Years On
Recent weeks have seen extreme weather across central and southern China, particularly in Guangxi, where a dam breach led to at least 26 deaths. These events
chinadigitaltimes.net
Translations: On Foreign and Domestic Media and "Man-Made Problems Lurking Behind Natural Disasters" "All of this ought to be common sense by now. But here we are in 2026, and we’re having to reiterate it yet again, which is truly lamentable."
Translations: On Foreign and Domestic Media and "Man-Made Problems Lurking Behind Natural Disasters"
Disaster preparedness and disaster-relief efforts are hot topics on Chinese social media as the country braces for as many as three new typhoons in the next
chinadigitaltimes.net
Amid Hong Kong Book Fair, Police Raid Two More Independent Bookstores, Arrest Five Booksellers "A woman with her hands cuffed behind her back, wearing a t-shirt declaring 'I am a bookstore clerk,' held her head high as she was escorted into a police car."
Amid Hong Kong Book Fair, Police Raid Two More Independent Bookstores, Arrest Five Booksellers
In yet another blow for book lovers and free thinkers in Hong Kong, national security police raided two independent bookstores (Have a Nice Stay and
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Translation: “Education for Migrant Workers’ Children Can’t Wait Any Longer” "Whether from a moral standpoint (ending the tragic separation of 100 million people from their parents or children) or a practical one (demographic crisis and technological upheaval), there is no room for further delay."
Translation: "Education for Migrant Workers' Children Can't Wait Any Longer"
In late May, China’s State Council announced new guidelines on providing basic services in the place of people’s actual residence, rather than formal
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Amid Hong Kong Book Fair, Police Raid Two More Independent Bookstores, Arrest Five Booksellers "A woman with her hands cuffed behind her back, wearing a t-shirt declaring 'I am a bookstore clerk,' held her head high as she was escorted into a police car."
Amid Hong Kong Book Fair, Police Raid Two More Independent Bookstores, Arrest Five Booksellers
In yet another blow for book lovers and free thinkers in Hong Kong, national security police raided two independent bookstores (Have a Nice Stay and
chinadigitaltimes.net
Translation: “Education for Migrant Workers’ Children Can’t Wait Any Longer” "Whether from a moral standpoint (ending the tragic separation of 100 million people from their parents or children) or a practical one (demographic crisis and technological upheaval), there is no room for further delay."
Translation: "Education for Migrant Workers' Children Can't Wait Any Longer"
In late May, China’s State Council announced new guidelines on providing basic services in the place of people’s actual residence, rather than formal
chinadigitaltimes.net
“Everything Is Sensitive”: Foreign Correspondents’ Club Survey Echoes Netizen Frustration at Unpredictable Red Lines "Respondents noted that authorities increasingly treated issues beyond the traditional political red lines as sensitive, such as the economy [...] rare earths and semiconductors."
"Everything Is Sensitive": Foreign Correspondents' Club Survey Echoes Netizen Frustration at Unpredictable Red Lines
The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China issued the findings of its 2025 Media Freedoms Survey this week, painting an unsurprisingly bleak picture of
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Translation: Euphemism and Censorship Surround Guangxi Flooding, Dam Breach News "'A gap appeared' isn’t my personal phrasing; it’s the term used by every [Chinese] media outlet in all subsequent reporting on the dam breach."
Translation: Euphemism and Censorship Surround Guangxi Flooding, Dam Breach News
Back-to-back typhoons have brought torrential rain, flooding, and other extreme weather events to parts of southern and central China, and prompted mass
chinadigitaltimes.net
“Everything Is Sensitive”: Foreign Correspondents’ Club Survey Echoes Netizen Frustration at Unpredictable Red Lines "Respondents noted that authorities increasingly treated issues beyond the traditional political red lines as sensitive, such as the economy [...] rare earths and semiconductors."
"Everything Is Sensitive": Foreign Correspondents' Club Survey Echoes Netizen Frustration at Unpredictable Red Lines
The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China issued the findings of its 2025 Media Freedoms Survey this week, painting an unsurprisingly bleak picture of
chinadigitaltimes.net
Translation: Euphemism and Censorship Surround Guangxi Flooding, Dam Breach News "'A gap appeared' isn’t my personal phrasing; it’s the term used by every [Chinese] media outlet in all subsequent reporting on the dam breach."
Translation: Euphemism and Censorship Surround Guangxi Flooding, Dam Breach News
Back-to-back typhoons have brought torrential rain, flooding, and other extreme weather events to parts of southern and central China, and prompted mass
chinadigitaltimes.net
Minitrue: 718 Leaked Directives from Video Platform LeTV "Selections illustrating key themes, from Xi Jinping to celebrities and foreign affairs to protests at home, are translated below."
Minitrue: 718 Leaked Directives from Video Platform LeTV
CDT recently published a large set of leaked internal instructions for online content management from the Chinese platform Leshi Video, or LeTV. They were
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Translation: "How Do These Comments Break the Rules?" "What makes me emo is this sense of powerlessness to know what breaks the rules … Censor all you want; I'll keep writing."
Translation: "How Do These Comments Break the Rules?"
The post below, the latest in a series of translated accounts by Chinese users grappling with online censorship, bemoans automated comment moderation on
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