China
China’s WeChat deletes comments of Evergrande saga victims
Protest groups are shut down.
Congressman Jim Banks questions LinkedIn after it censored for China
The Microsoft-owned platform is accused of taking orders from the CCP on who to censor.
Life is Strange: True Colors is review bombed and pulled in China after discovery of Tibetan flag in the game
Chinese authorities consider the flag a symbol of separatism.
China’s Weibo suspends 22 K-pop accounts
To “regulate community order.”
Chinese women jailed for downloading Falun Gong ebooks
5 years in jail.
China orders crackdown on independent journalists that criticize financial policy
A new wave of censorship.
China to dictate how streamers dress and speak
China is making big strides in regulating independent streamers, not just dictating what they’re allowed to say – but also how they say it.
China is flooding South America with cheap surveillance. At what cost?
What’s China’s end game?
Apple’s plan to scan users’ private photos and messages branded “mass surveillance for the entire world”
Privacy experts fear that that Apple’s new surveillance tech will constantly be expanded and misused.