Censorship, surveillance, and harassment: China cracks down on critics
March 20, 2018 11:39 AM ET
Hours after the Chinese Communist Party proposed a constitutional change last month to lift presidential term limits, any words or phrases that remotely suggested President Xi Jingping was seeking a life term were blocked from social media. Censors targeted...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of December 18
December 19, 2016 1:42 PM ET
Court confiscates assets of 54 journalists Istanbul's 11th Court of Penal Peace court confiscated the assets of 54 journalists, media workers, and writers, saying there was a "strong suspicion" that they were followers of exiled preacher Fethullah Gülen, whom...
China doubles down on counterproductive censorship
January 28, 2015 5:15 PM ET
In a move unlikely to surprise those who access the Internet from mainland China, the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently blocked several popular tools used to bypass the "Great Firewall" national Internet censorship system. Citing the need...
Syrian Facebook: Low-tech threats and high-tech scrutiny
May 6, 2011 4:58 PM ET
Journalists and online news-gatherers have been struggling to collect and distribute high-quality information about recent events in Syria. Foreign journalists have been turned away at the border; local online reporters have been detained. The quality of Internet and mobile phone...