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Tag Archives: Censorship
Rectified.Name: Good News! The Press is Out to Get You!
A couple of weeks ago I gave a talk about PR in China to a journalism class at Beijing Foreign Studies University. In any student talk the Q&A is always the most fun, and this group was no exception. Among … Continue reading
Tagged Business, Censorship, China, China in the News, Ethics, Journalism, Media, Politics, Public Relations, Rectified.name
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Rectified.Name: Facebook + Instagram + China = Take a Deep Breath
So, Facebook bought Instagram for a billion bucks. Awesome for those guys. I, alas, did not get rich in either of the Internet startups I participated in. But you can’t put a price on experience, right? Deep sigh. Anyway, Instagram … Continue reading
Tagged Censorship, China, Internet, Politics, Technology
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Rectified.name: Facebook’s China Playbook
As you have undoubtedly heard by now, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his girlfriend* were spotted in Shanghai on Wednesday. This has lead to a completely predictable round of speculation as to whether this signals some new development in Facebook + China. This sort of navel … Continue reading
Tagged Censorship, China, Facebook, Internet, Politics, Rectified.name, Technology
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Sinica returns! Train wrecks, Weibo and the enigma of David Sedaris
After a couple of months off, Sinica was back last week. It was hard to pass up something as interesting as the high-speed rail disaster on the Wenzhou line, a story that is still unfolding and that I suspect we … Continue reading
Tagged Censorship, China, Coverups, Crisis Management, Food, Internet, Politics, Propaganda, Sinica
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A handy cheat sheet for interpreting the Google China story
Should Google have been in China? Did they make the right move in pulling out? Will this influence the Chinese government? What does it mean for foreign businesses in China? Are they evil or not? Who knows? Not me. And … Continue reading
There’s more to the Great Firewall than technology
Yesterday, in the US, former journalist, academic and blogger Rebecca MacKinnon gave testimony to the senate in a hearing called, “Global Internet Freedom and the Rule of Law.” A couple of days ago, she posted the written version of her … Continue reading
Tagged Censorship, China, Internet, Media, Politics
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A serious look at online censorship in China from an unlikely source
Among the circles that Imagethief runs in it is relatively fashionable to be completely disdainful of the Chinese English-language media. This is not entirely unfair. Chinese English-language news sources have their uses, but by comparison with most international news sources … Continue reading
Tagged Censorship, China, Global Times, Internet, Media, Xinhua
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Clearing the fog around Google China reports
Note: This is cross-posted from the old Imagethief blog. The original post is here. A quick pointer to an excellent post at the Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time blog, which busts several myths concerning Google in China that have … Continue reading
Tagged Business, Censorship, China in the News, Google, Internet
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Google detonates the China corporate communications script
Imagethief stumbled blearily to his computer this morning expecting a relaxed scan of the news but found the Chinese Twittersphere ablaze with the news of Google’s bombshell blog post, which went up in the middle of the night early this … Continue reading
Tagged Best of Imagethief, Business, Censorship, China, Crisis Management, Google, Internet, Politics, Public Relations
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Seriously? They blocked IMDB?
Note: This is cross-posted from the old Imagethief blog. The original post is here. Imagethief is as annoyed by the Great Firewall (or Net Nanny or what-have-you) as anyone who lives in China and uses overseas social networks. One of … Continue reading
Tagged Censorship, China, Nationalism, Pop Culture, Technology
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