Information, Communications, Technology (ICT)

HRIC Resigns Global Network Initiative Membership

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 22:54:59 +0000

July 13, 2016

HRIC Resigns Global Network Initiative Membership

Freedom of Expression

HRIC has resigned from the Global Network Initiative (GNI), the multi-stakeholder group founded in 2008 to advance freedom of expression and privacy in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector. As a founding member and former board member of the GNI, HRIC has actively contributed...

“No” to a Google Search Engine with Chinese Characteristics—Not “Right Now” or Ever

phb — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 22:34:02 +0000

December 11, 2018

“No” to a Google Search Engine with Chinese Characteristics—Not “Right Now” or Ever

Statement

Access to Information

In a Congressional hearing today, faced with questions from multiple members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee about Google’ s controversial Dragonfly Project—a search engine in development designed to meet the censorship requirements of the Chinese government—Google CEO Sundar Pichai...

NGO Joint Letter to Google CEO on Project Dragonfly

phb — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 23:56:07 +0000

December 11, 2018

NGO Joint Letter to Google CEO on Project Dragonfly

HRIC Bulletin

Freedom of Expression

HRIC joins 70 NGOs, individuals in an open letter led by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International to urge Google to drop the development of a censored search engine for the Chinese market. OPEN LETTER: RESPONSE TO GOOGLE on PROJECT DRAGONFLY, CHINA AND HUMAN RIGHTS To: Sundar Pichai, Chief...

On Google’s Reported Plan to Work with Chinese Censors

tw — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 22:30:25 +0000

August 2, 2018

On Google’s Reported Plan to Work with Chinese Censors

HRIC Commentary

Access to Information

This week, international media reported with some alarm the news that Google is building a version of its search engine for mobile users in China that is designed to restrict information flow by filtering out search terms including human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest...

Statement by Shi Tao

tw — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:29:07 +0000

July 1, 2015

Statement by Shi Tao

Citizens' Square

Access to Information

On June 5, Shi Tao, former editor of “Contemporary Business News,” issued a statement protesting the deletion of contents from his WeChat “Moments,” and condemning WeChat for having become a shameful accomplice to powerful officials. Afterwards, he registered for a NetEase account. Despite being...

Excerpt from Testimony of Alan Davidson, Director of Public Policy, Google Inc. before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China

noc — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000

July 16, 2010

Excerpt from Testimony of Alan Davidson, Director of Public Policy, Google Inc. before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China

China Rights Forum

Censorship

March 24, 2010 1 China Update Let us start with an update on Google’s situation in China. We launched Google.cn, our Chinese search engine, in January 2006 in the belief that the benefits of increased access to information for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed our discomfort in...

HRIC Talks with Adam Kanzer of Domini Social Investments

noc — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000

July 16, 2010

HRIC Talks with Adam Kanzer of Domini Social Investments

China Rights Forum

Business And Human Rights

HRIC: Can you please introduce Domini Social Investments, and explain more generally what a social investment fund is? Adam Kanzer: Domini Social Investments is a mutual fund manager based in New York. We manage approximately $1 billion for individual and institutional investors. We focus...

The Internet and Chinese Civil Society

noc — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000

July 16, 2010

The Internet and Chinese Civil Society

China Rights Forum

Censorship

Translation by HRIC In August 2007, the Financial Times reported that at least five Chinese Internet entrepreneurs had introduced websites similar to Twitter. This was barely one-and-a-half years after the original Twitter was introduced on March 21, 2006. At present, if a website model has found...

Social Networking in the Golden Shield Environment

noc — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000

July 16, 2010

Social Networking in the Golden Shield Environment

China Rights Forum

Censorship

Translation by Wen Huang The Internet has created room for the birth and development of civil society in totalitarian countries. In the past two years, social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, have developed at an amazing speed in non-democratic countries. They have become the...

Behind the Padlock Icon: Certificate Authorities’ Mysterious Role in Internet Security

noc — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000

July 16, 2010

Behind the Padlock Icon: Certificate Authorities’ Mysterious Role in Internet Security

China Rights Forum

Censorship

Many Internet users are aware that they ought to look for a padlock icon in their web browsers when doing something important online. Some users understand that the padlock is supposed to indicate that their communications are “secure”—confidential and in some sense authentic.

Netizens Comment on the Internet White Paper

noc — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000

July 14, 2010

Netizens Comment on the Internet White Paper

China Rights Forum

Citizen Activism

Translation by HRIC “中国政府在驳斥对互联网自由指控时，总是强调有多少网民多少博客，国新办《中国互联网状况》也如是。这种逻辑基本和我骂你是傻逼，你却说自己身高190，相貌堂堂一样。” “The Chinese government, in refuting criticisms on Internet freedom, always emphasizes the number of Internet users and bloggers, including in the Internet White Paper. This logic is akin to when I...

Concerning the Development and Administration of Our Country’s Internet

noc — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000

July 13, 2010

Concerning the Development and Administration of Our Country’s Internet

China Rights Forum

Communist Party Of China

Deputy Director, Propaganda Department, Communist Party of China (CPC) Director, External Propaganda Department, CPC Director, Information Office, State Council, People’s Republic of China Delivered on April 29, 2010 before the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress [Translation by...

Introduction: “China’s Internet”: Staking Digital Ground

noc — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000

July 9, 2010

Introduction: “China’s Internet”: Staking Digital Ground

China Rights Forum

Information Control

This issue— “China’s Internet”: Staking Digital Ground —has been a particularly demanding volume to develop and produce. The diversity and sophistication of perspectives, technical, legal, and information security expertise of the various contributors, and fast-paced developments added to the...