The HRIC Daily Brief is a daily selection of news stories and commentary related to human rights in China, drawn from Chinese- and English-language news and online media sources that we monitor daily. In addition to headlines and source links, HRIC also provides English translation of Chinese headlines.

Thursday, June 05, 2014

Information Control (信息控制)

六四周年: 中国严控微博 封杀措施空前 (Online censorship reaches unprecedented scale on June Fourth anniversary)
British Broadcasting Corporation, June 4, 2014
www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2014/06/140604_june_four_social_media_censorship.shtml

One legacy of Tiananmen: China’s 100 million surveillance cameras
The Wall Street Journal, June 5, 2014
blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/06/05/one-legacy-of-tiananmen-chinas-100-million-surveillance-cameras/?mod=chinablog

LinkedIn is censoring posts about Tiananmen Square
Quartz, June 4, 2014
qz.com/216691/linkedin-is-censoring-posts-about-tiananmen-square-even-outside-mainland-china/