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TL;DR: 2015 marked a changing point in China’s relationship with the global Internet. This post takes a look back at 2015 and 16 events in which the effects of China’s Internet control and censorship regime started being felt outside of its borders. I spent much of the
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Wow! I am shocked and humbled by the positive reaction to my post last Friday about how Tantan doesn't use encryption. The overwhelming interest on reddit and across Facebook and Twitter along with the interest from the mainstream media showed that many people understand the value of encryption
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Update: Tantan CEO and Co-founder Yu Wang reached out to me via email to acknowledge these issues. Read his email and my response. TL;DR: Chinese Tinder clone Tantan is endangering young women and men by failing to use encryption and exposing private data like that made public in
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The release of iOS 9 saw the launch of Apple’s attempt to revolutionize the news industry, Apple News. While Apple has been pretty clear that News is launching first in the United States, users typically haven’t had any problem using it in other countries as long as your
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Ask someone to make a list of #ChinaProblems and the Great Firewall is going to be close to the top. The Great Firewall, usually referred to online as GFW, is a system of network hardware, software and policies that work together to wreak havoc on everyone’s favorite non-Chinese
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Baidu's content data network (CDN), the computers that serve Baidu analytics and Baidu ads has been hijacked and is being used to launch a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on popular developer tool Github. The China Twitterverse has been buzzing today with reports of weird javascript errors
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Great post about in ChinaLawBlog about how China is putting an end to so-called variable interest entities (VIEs) that most of China's large internet companies, including Tencent, Sina and Baidu, used to IPO overseas and raise funds from foreign investors. Yet, the remarkable fact is that these
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Came across this video where a number of students in a British Chinese language school are asked whether they consider themselves British or Chinese or something else. I tweeted the link without comment intentionally hoping no one would notice and a Twitter follower called me out on it. Some thoughts:
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Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the death of former Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. The BBC reported on those mourning the anniversary of his death in Beijing: Mourners have gathered to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of China's purged former leader, Zhao Ziyang. More than 100
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Today, Apple officially kicked off their alliance with China Mobile, the world's largest mobile carrier with almost 800 million subscribers. While mainstream media widely covered the launch day from Beijing, complete with pictures of Tim Cook and China Mobile executives, they missed some of the more interesting details
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Many of us in the Hong Kong tech community have followed the Uber closely from afar - watching with jealousy as our friends in the valley and NYC tweet about riding around in Uber comfort. City after city in Asia launched Uber: Taipei, Singapore, Shanghai - but not Hong Kong! A couple
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Friend Tricia Wang is spending a year in China doing fascinating research on poor migrants and their use of technology. She recently shared an excellent write up regarding her experience undercover as a migrant on the Beijing subway. I've lived in China for several years, most of which