China Clamps Down on Internet as It Seeks to Stamp Out Covid Protests
中国指示科技公司加大网络审查力度，以遏制反封控抗议
The Wall Street Journal, December 1-2, 2022
‘They are deleting our images’: Chinese protesters detail digital censorship, VPN struggles as fight over COVID lockdowns grows
The Daily Dot, December 2, 2022
“‘The Chinese authorities are faced with steep legitimacy and regime stability challenges posed by these multi-city protests now also morphing into attacks on the central government and even naming the self-proclaimed “general” of China’s war against COVID—Xi Jinping,’ said Sharon Hom, the Executive Director of Human Rights in China, while talking to the Daily Dot.
“‘The usual social control tools of an authoritarian regime—online censorship, surveillance, intimidation, and targeting and detention of protestors—may not be effective in the longer term to deal with the explosion of online and offline expression and protest actions,’ she added.”
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Voice of America, December 2, 2022
China brings in ‘emergency’ level censorship over zero-Covid protests
The Guardian, December 2, 2022
China hosts Asia security group’s talks on building regional influence
South China Morning Post, December 2, 2022
