2026-11-10
Procurement documents for AI classroom patrol systems at Anhui Vocational College of Commerce and Trade and Zhengzhou Normal University in 2025 have recently sparked concern: the systems monitor student attendance rates, head-up rates, and desk-leaning rates, analyze the political leanings and sensitive words in teachers' classroom speech, and automatically trigger screenshots for evidence collection and inclusion in priority monitoring lists when thresholds are met.
2026-11-06
On November 6, a netizen released a sensitive word extraction tool for the WeChat Input Method, extracting 13,362 sensitive words. These include a large number of satirical nicknames related to Xi Jinping, as well as terms like June Fourth and the anti-extradition movement. The poster stated that the word list is built into the installation package, and once triggered, it prevents word formation, predictive text, or memory storage.
2026-11-06
The topic of Xi Jinping voting trended on Weibo. After the People's Daily forwarded it, the comment section showed that the platform had enabled comment filtering. Netizens found that Weibo's AI smart search showed an interruption in thinking for this topic, responding that it was temporarily unable to answer.
2026-11-06
On November 6, the government of Youxi County, Sanming City, Fujian Province, released a report on the county and township-level People's Congress election work conference. It acknowledged issues such as voter registration omissions and insufficient analysis of electoral districts in some townships, requiring a re-examination of voter registration and the inclusion of those missed. It also demanded that candidates pass a 'political, quality, and structural' joint review and that election publicity strictly control public opinion.
2026-11-05
Recently, a netizen first asked Doubao about football history, subtly inquiring whether a coaching style that maintains absolute authority over a team for a long time and causes massive turmoil is dictatorial, but received no clear answer. After asking directly, the netizen received a prompt stating, 'This content is suspected of violating Doubao's usage policy.'
2026-11-05
On November 5, a netizen posted that when using the China-version iPhone's Apple Intelligence to process lyrics, the system blocked it for "potentially not complying with relevant laws and regulations," and the restriction persisted even after modifications. Netizens in the comments pointed out that the reason was the phrase "in the crowd, dancing the flower dance" (在人群中共跳花之舞) contained the term "Zhonggong" (中共, CCP).
2026-11-03
A netizen posted that their roommate needed to submit political vetting materials for their parents to apply for CCP membership, with one section requiring them to fill in their parents' performance during the 'June 4th turmoil'. The roommate, not understanding what this meant, asked Doubao (a product under ByteDance) and received the reply: 'I cannot answer this question.'
2026-11-03
The official website of Wenzhou University of Technology has made public similar correspondence materials, requiring the village committee, neighborhood committee, or sub-district office where parents reside to provide political vetting materials. The attached form lists columns for 'whether there are any issues or conclusions regarding the Cultural Revolution, the 1989 turmoil, or Falun Gong'.
2026-11-03
On November 3, a US netizen posted a video stating that screenshots of a recently released movie sent to friends were repeatedly blocked by WeChat. Even after cropping and blurring, they could not be sent, but sending them via Douyin succeeded, sparking discussions among netizens about WeChat's censorship mechanism.
2026-11-02
Recently, a Douyin influencer posted a video asking which athlete is closest to the perfect athlete. The comments section flooded with answers like Mbappé, the French supercar, and Chiang Kai-shek. Many netizens posted photos of drinks and milk cartons featuring Mbappé's portrait, leaving teasing comments.
2026-11-02
On November 2, a Bilibili blogger posted a video explaining the idiom 'Xi yan bu cha'. Screenshots show it reached 135,000 views, but with zero comments or bullet comments, as the comment section was disabled.
2026-11-01
On November 1, a netizen posted an item on Xianyu titled "Does anyone want to know what Mbappe said?" The platform removed the item and deducted 100 'Xianqi' points, citing politically sensitive information. Three seconds later, the user's 'Xianqi' score dropped to 0, all their items were deleted, and their account was permanently restricted from posting, purchasing, commenting, and private messaging.
2026-10-31
On October 31, rapper Pharaoh released his new album 'A Young Person's Life'. Netizens interpreted the first characters of the lyrics in the song 'October' as a homophonic reference to 'Long Live the Cultural Revolution'. Pharaoh responded that he had no such intention and it was purely a coincidence. To avoid a negative listening experience, he muted the relevant lyrics; in the latest screenshot of the lyrics, '革职掉玉帝' (Dismiss the Jade Emperor) has been replaced with asterisks.
2026-10-30
On October 30, Havana continued to post on X, using German Nazi history to warn against extreme nationalism and criticizing the use of "patriotism" as a requirement to conduct political censorship on others as the beginning of anti-democracy.
2026-10-30
On October 30, a netizen posted that after sharing a photo on WeChat Moments of a "Bushuila" drink featuring a portrait of Kylian Mbappé, all social functions of their account were temporarily restricted four minutes later.
2026-10-30
On October 30, The Diplomat published a commentary noting that after Kylian Mbappé referred to Mao Zedong as a dictator, he, Real Madrid, and La Liga issued successive apologies. This demonstrates that commercial pressure from the Chinese market is constraining overseas speech, and companies may be proactively enforcing political boundaries.
2026-10-29
Recently, the comments section for a post on the Dongqiudi app titled "Ballon d'Or 17th Place: Vinícius" was closed. Netizens explained that this was due to the two characters "Winnie" (Vinícius's nickname in Chinese), with some lamenting that even cartoons cannot be mentioned now.
2026-10-29
On October 29, the official website of the Zhejiang Conservatory of Music published an article introducing the theme class meetings held from September to October. The former Drama Department incorporated online speech and conduct into disciplinary education, covering all 16 classes, with complete records and photos of the class meetings archived.
2026-10-28
After the controversy over Mbappé's remarks, a netizen posted on WeChat Moments a photo of a "Hydrate" drink printed with Mbappé's face along with a doctored image captioned "Party enemy Mbappé," with the caption "has become a swan song." After the post went up, friends could not see it; 22 minutes later the user reposted a screenshot, and it was blocked again more than two hours later.
2026-10-28
On October 28, the Weibo topic "Mbappe's apology not posted on his 135 million follower IG" reached the top 4 on the trending list. Netizens joked that Instagram is banned in China, so even if he had posted it, no one would see it.
2026-10-27
On October 27, the Election Committee Office of Gong County, Yibin, Sichuan, stated on the official website of the County People's Congress that all preliminary candidates for the new term of county and township people's congresses were selected from a reserve pool of approximately 2,200 people. This pool is coordinated by the Organization Department of the County Party Committee, and candidates are subject to joint review by discipline inspection, police (Public Security), and judicial departments.
2026-10-27
On October 27, after Mbappé sparked controversy by calling Mao Zedong a "Chinese dictator," Dongpeng Beverage Group and its brand "Bu Shui La" issued a statement announcing the immediate termination of all cooperation with Mbappé, stating zero tolerance for hurting national sentiments.
2026-10-27
On October 27, a Chinese netizen posted on X, using Mbappé's joke about the Chinese leader as an example to ask whether one could also joke about Napoleon; a foreign netizen left a highly upvoted reply in the comments saying that anyone can be joked about, and that this is called freedom of speech.
2026-10-26
After Mbappé's remarks drew attention, Dongqiudi issued a statement saying the relevant comments involved harm to China and the Chinese people and would not be translated, and called on fans to watch matches rationally and avoid crossing the line.
2026-10-20
On October 20, Haixia Net, under the Fujian Daily Press Group, published a commentary signed by Wu Shenglin, using the incident in which a team of Taiwan legislator Fan Yun used CapCut to edit a video, then took it down and apologized, to criticize the Taiwan authorities for creating information barriers, saying "a ban cannot lock up people's hearts, and a tall wall cannot block curiosity."
2026-10-19
On October 19, a Douyin user posted a video claiming that privileged groups instill hatred internally and tamper with or block historical information in the name of the state, while smearing other countries and engaging in an arms race externally. Netizens in the comments section called for the overthrow of these privileged groups.
2026-10-18
On October 18, a Douyin blogger posted a video saying that no big shot can easily deprive tens of millions of people of their lives without paying a price, and that after death one may not necessarily be laid to rest in peace, citing Stalin as an example. He then said the story had nothing to do with him and asked viewers not to take it seriously.
2026-10-17
On October 17, a Douyin account sharing civil service exam prep materials posted a “daily practice question.” Netizens collectively flooded the comments with wrong answers such as “all power of the country belongs to the government” and “the highest organ of state power is the state president.” The video received 19,000 shares in total, while the comment section showed 0 comments.
2026-10-15
On October 15, a student in Zhejiang posted that they had not installed any circumvention software and had only used the campus network to visit the PTE test official website and the immigration bureau websites of New Zealand and Australia to apply for a visa, but was questioned by the school, which accused them of “accessing sensitive foreign-related websites.”
2026-10-14
On October 14, Taiwan Affairs Office spokesperson Chen Binhua responded to Kevin Tsai's attendance at Puma Shen's campaign event, saying that it respects and safeguards Taiwan compatriots' "legitimate" freedom of speech, but warned that no one can cash in on mainland dividends while colluding with "Taiwan independence" and being "two-faced."
2026-10-13
On October 13, the X account Wall Country Waha (@GFWfrog) posted that the South Park Chinese wiki is no longer accessible in mainland China, that it could still be opened normally three or four months ago, and that this is related to the show's mockery of the Chinese Communist Party; the post included a screenshot of a South Park episode page featuring an image of Xi Jinping.
2026-10-13
On October 13, the X account GFWfrog (@GFWfrog) posted that the Chinese Wikipedia of The Simpsons (simpsons.fandom.com/zh) has been blocked in mainland China; the attached ITDOG speed-test screenshot showed timeouts at nodes in every province across the country.
2026-10-13
On October 13, the X account Wall Country Waha (@GFWfrog) posted that the Family Guy wiki (familyguy.fandom.com) has been blocked in mainland China; the attached ITDOG speed-test screenshot showed that nodes in every province across the country timed out.
2026-10-09
On October 9, some netizens said that when they filled in “Chapman To” as the delivery contact name on Meituan, the page prompted that the “name contains non-compliant content,” while the same name worked normally on Meituan Shangou, and the comment section questioned whether the platform was carrying out political censorship.
2026-10-07
On October 7, Chapman To recalled on Facebook his experience of being blacklisted in 2014 for supporting the Sunflower Movement, saying that over the past 12 years he has never gone without a meal — now he wears a Patek Philippe, drives a Porsche 911 to buy groceries, and calls out “Long live freedom.”
2026-10-05
In an interview, Shen Bo said that it is perfectly normal in a democratic society for Kevin Tsai to want to hear different voices, and added that if he had the opportunity to be interviewed exclusively by Kevin Tsai, he would be very willing to do so.
2026-10-05
On October 5, a TikTok blogger uploaded a number meme video; after comments that appeared to allude to 64 showed up in the comment section, it was blocked, and neither the video nor the account could be searched.
2026-10-05
Recently, multiple netizens discovered that when using a photo of Tiananmen with Douyin's "one-click video" feature, the system blocked it, prompting "The selected image does not meet the requirements, try another one."
2026-10-05
On October 5, some netizens reported that videos on Bilibili about French student protests were censored and taken down, while pro-China narrative content posted by patriotic influencers was also deleted; searches returned only content published by Russian state media, the overseas edition of People's Daily, and Huanqiu.
2026-10-04
After Kevin Tsai attended a campaign event, Leapmotor stated that it firmly adheres to the One China principle and announced that it would take offline all content related to Kevin Tsai.
2026-10-04
After Kevin Tsai's participation in a Taipei mayoral candidate's event sparked controversy, Harper's Bazaar removed related interview promotions.
2026-10-02
According to a BBC report, China will impose broader regulation on AI chatbots open to the public starting July 15, placing restrictions on emotional interaction apps such as AI friends, AI boyfriends, and AI girlfriends: parental consent is required for those under 14, and access to virtual companions is prohibited for those under 18.
2026-10-02
On October 2, Taiwanese singer Hebe Tien said "you have to be very careful what you say now" during a livestream promoting her new album Where to Go, lamenting that it is "so painful."
2026-10
On the eve of National Day, TF Family trainee Yang Bowen posted a video of cycling to Tiananmen to see the red flag, and the video was subsequently deleted.
2026-10
Peking University News subsequently published a report on Steinmeier's visit, detailing his activities such as playing table tennis with students and faculty and receiving a signed racket, but made no mention of his speech quoting Cai Yuanpei's principle of 'freedom of thought and inclusiveness.'
2026-09-30
Human Rights in China (HRIC) released its digital rights report for August 2026 on September 30, 2026. The report documents and analyzes in detail the state of digital rights in China's online environment during that month, including speech censorship, online surveillance, and cases of related human rights violations. Through this systematic review, the report aims to reveal to the international community the Chinese authorities' restrictions and crackdowns on citizens' rights in digital space, providing first-hand material for researchers and the public concerned about the state of digital human rights in China.
2026-09-28
On September 28, 2026, the account @CDT published a translated article of a censored commentary about Beijing's ban on drone storage. The article points out that the logic behind the new rule is to shift the boundary of security prevention directly from the sky down to the level of device possession, sparking discussion about the relevant policies and the control of personal devices.
2026-09-25
During on-site reporting, the reporter was obstructed by suspected CCP personnel, including having their camera lens blocked by umbrellas, being physically blocked from filming, and even receiving threatening gestures. The reporter felt threatened.
2026-09-24
Recently, under a Xiaohongshu post interviewing passersby about whether they like their president, netizens flooded the comments with 'dog head for self-preservation' to avoid taking a stance.
2026-09-20
On September 20, 2026, Beijing time, China Digital Times (@CDT) published a report revealing the list of sensitive words used by ByteDance content moderators. The lexicon contains 5,241 sensitive words, covering political figures and their family members, historical and political events, firearms and other prohibited weapons, as well as various scandals and controversial incidents, exposing the platform's strict internal content control mechanism.
2026-09-15
On September 15, the Cyberspace Administration of China announced that two AI API relay stations operated by a technology company in Jiangsu were ordered to rectify and given a warning penalty for failing to conduct safety assessments in accordance with regulations and for posing content safety risks.
2026-09-15
On September 15, a video circulating from Beijing at night showed multiple barricades set up around Tiananmen Square, with plainclothes and uniformed guards, police cars, armed police, and fire trucks on the scene. Online reports indicated that Chang'an Avenue was temporarily under traffic control, with restricted access for personnel in some areas. While relevant footage and information about the controls spread online, there has been no further official explanation regarding the specific cause, duration, or handling of the situation.
2026-09-15
On September 15, Xiaohongshu disclosed that since launching the special rectification campaign at the beginning of the year, over the past nearly six months it has handled more than 1.01 million violating notes, 157,000 violating accounts, and more than 4.77 million violating comments.
2026-09-13
Footage of Xi Jinping returning to Beijing from India shows him descending the aircraft stairs with his body leaning to the left, his left arm hanging naturally without swinging, only his right arm swinging and waving, and walking slowly and with difficulty. The footage has circulated online and is being cited as one of the grounds for discussion about his health.
2026-09-10
On September 10, a user posted an article accusing domestic film and television and social platforms of double standards in reviewing homosexual content, with positive emotional content being restricted or removed, while content linking the homosexual group with negative labels can be spread normally, attracting attention.
2026-09-11
On September 10, 2026, Shanghai Observer published a commentary titled "Don't Treat Goodwill as an ATM," and Dazhong News also published a commentary discussing private student financial aid; on September 11, the original pages of the two articles respectively displayed "This article does not exist or has been taken offline" and "The manuscript has been deleted."
2026-09-09
On September 9, when the word 'nikah' was entered into the iTerjiman translation software, a warning page popped up and an alarm played, stating that translation was prohibited and noting legal liabilities.
2026-09-07
The Economist published an article analyzing the current state of speech censorship in China, pointing out that articles discussing the boundaries of expression are being deleted, society has fallen into a state of high self-censorship, and the CCP is using this to consolidate control.
2026-09-07
On September 7, a netizen tried to share on Weibo that six small dogs ran out of a pet bathhouse, triggering a violation of the rules.
2026-09-08
According to a September 2026 video by Toronto Fang Lian, in the early stage of the Internet firewall system's construction, the only hardware contractors were Sugon under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Huawei, and Huawei has long been involved in building the CCP's internet censorship and surveillance system.
2026-09-07
After The Economist published an article on September 7, 2026 pointing out that China's speech environment has fallen into a deep freeze, this article exploring cultural censorship and the boundaries of expression was deleted across the entire Chinese internet.
2026-09
Silicon Valley attorney Zhu says his WeChat account, which he had used for more than 10 years, was permanently banned, with the platform citing reports against it and multiple violations as the reason.
2026-09
Rumors online claim that Ren Zhengfei and Meng Wanzhou fled the country by sea. The news has been out for six or seven days, yet neither Ren Zhengfei nor Meng Wanzhou has appeared in public, and Huawei has not issued a denial, sparking speculation outside the company.
2026-09-01
Qiushi published a reader's letter stating that many regions and units treat "zero public opinion" as a work target, prioritizing post deletion and cover-up rather than solving problems when public opinion arises.
2026-08-21
On August 21, 2026, netizens reported that when selling Chai Jing's book Seeing on the Xianyu platform, they were blocked by the system; sending the book title directly was intercepted with a prompt about improper information, and both buyer and seller had to rely on coded language to complete the transaction.
2026-08-17
On August 17, MacRumors reported that content safety prompts related to the mainland China version of Apple Intelligence writing tools were discovered in the macOS 26.7 system code, indicating it may have an independent content censorship mechanism.
2026-08-15
On August 15, 2026, a mainland traveler posted on a social platform revealing that they were stopped and inspected by customs upon entering from Hong Kong simply for carrying seven books, drawing attention to book inspections at border crossings.
2026-08-13
On August 13, photos of bouquets and candles posted by netizens on social platforms to mourn Zhu Rongji were subjected to platform censorship and throttling, and the comment section of posts about laying flowers at his ancestral home was also cleared.
2026-08-11
On August 11, 2026, Yunque, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tencent responsible for content moderation of products such as QQ, Tencent Video, and Tencent News, published a large number of job postings for moderation positions, drawing outside attention to an intensification of platform content regulation.
2026-08-07
It is alleged that the CCP Central Committee General Office conveyed requirements to Wang Xiaohong through Chen Wenqing, mandating the state security system to conduct political vetting of individuals entering and exiting China.
2026-08
In August 2026, in videos related to Lianshui Secondary Vocational School in Jiangsu and videos praising official propaganda, a large number of netizens were blocked by keyword filtering over the phrase "hao ni ma" and instead flooded the screen with the reversed text "ma ni hao" to express irony.
2026-08
In August 2026, it was reported online that a netizen, after searching on Douyin for phrases containing the word "poison," received a call from local police officers asking whether they were involved with drugs and was asked to go to the police station to cooperate in making a statement.
2026-07-29
On July 29, 2026, the historical nonfiction work Eight Thousand Hunan Women Go to the Tianshan Mountains, which records the history of supporting the frontier, was subjected to content control on reading platforms such as Douban and WeChat Reading. All of its readers' reviews were wiped out, and the rating and tagging functions were shut down and disabled.
2026-07-21
The Hunan Library issued an announcement on its official WeChat account stating that due to recent incidents where readers used public Wi-Fi to circumvent the Great Firewall and access prohibited overseas websites, posing serious cybersecurity risks, it has temporarily shut down its wireless network for rectification and exposed the mobile phone numbers of some readers.
2026-07-17
On July 17, 2026, after Hong Kong police raided an independent bookstore and seized books, the monograph accused of seditious intent, “Only Red Flowers Bloom,” quickly topped bestseller lists in Taiwan, including Books.com.tw and Kingstone, and an emergency reprint was launched.
2026-07-11
On July 11, 2026, a cybersecurity account disclosed screenshots of documents showing that Chinese listed cybersecurity company RenZixing established a VPN intelligence database, conducting deep traffic screening and feature tagging on more than thirty circumvention tools including Mist, Lantern, and others.
2026-07-09
In July 2026, the gender-irony viral term “Sanshuai,” a satirical coinage by male netizens, and related deconstruction topics were jointly censored, blocked, and banned from search on mainstream domestic social platforms including Douyin, Xiaohongshu, and Weibo.
2026-07-02
Lam Wing-kee, founder of Hong Kong's Causeway Bay Books, passed away in Taiwan on July 2 due to cancer at the age of 70. Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te posted a tribute, praising his witness to the value of freedom of speech.
2026-07
OpenAI released a report pointing out that the CCP is using AI to generate content to attack specific bloggers and deceive other bloggers into making anti-American statements.
2026-07
At a book fair in Hangzhou, a member of the public openly said that a book of Xi Jinping's quotations was only fit for use as toilet paper, and was subsequently taken away by security guards.
2026-06-24
On June 24, 2026, China Digital Times publicly released 718 internal censorship directives from LeTV, detailing the complete process by which internet regulators issued deletion and filtering orders regarding leaders and sensitive incidents from 2017 to 2020.
2026-06-20
On June 20, 2026, netizens revealed that after the open-world game Uncharted Waters: Origins launched servers in mainland China, its international server’s world chat system had set “Teacher Li” as a blocked word, filtering it with asterisks for censorship.
2026-06-16
On June 16, 2026, Guoji Beisheng released the "Cross-Border VPN Identification System for Universities – Product White Paper," claiming that by using bidirectional traffic monitoring and deep learning models, it achieves real-time detection, evidence collection, and violation profiling of circumventing the Great Firewall behavior.
2026-06-14
On June 14, 2026, a tech uploader on Bilibili posted a video analyzing the Cyberspace Administration of China's "Regulations on Online Review Activities," questioning that the new rules could easily be abused by manufacturers in practice as a tool to pressure the removal of negative reviews.
2026-06
When sharing overseas about shaking hands with Xi Jinping, KMT Chairperson Cheng Li-wun described his hands as "soft as clouds." The related remarks and the word "clouds" were subsequently thoroughly scrubbed (404ed) across the mainland Chinese internet.
2026-05
The Temple of Heaven Park management office issued a notice announcing that the park would be closed from May 13 to 14, but gave no reason; the program said that security personnel and vehicles had already increased at the park beforehand.
2026-04
In an interview on the French web show The Bridge (hosted by his Real Madrid teammate Tchouaméni), Mbappé was asked about the funniest meme of himself. He said it was the one where someone put his face onto a photo of “a Chinese dictator,” adding that he often sends it to friends while playing video games. The show later edited in a composite image of him and Mao Zedong. Multiple media outlets report that the interview was recorded in April this year, and clips spread on platforms such as Reddit and X starting October 26.
2026-03-31
Taiwan's Shilin District Court issued a ruling in the case in which Wang Zhian sued Hu Zhongxin, accusing him of being CCP overseas propaganda and a double agent. The judge dismissed all of Wang Zhian's claims, finding that the statements in question constituted opinion expression and political commentary based on facts, and were protected by freedom of speech.
2026-03-19
The Douyin influencer "Chigua Mengzhu," who gained popularity by interpreting "Dream of the Red Chamber" from the perspective of "mourning the Ming and opposing the Qing," saw their follower count briefly soar to 5 million before being banned across all platforms on March 19.
2026-02
In February 2026, the community of well-known overseas Twitter influencer "Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher" launched the "Cyber Letters and Calls Bureau" website, collecting and displaying records of grievances such as rights defense and judicial injustice within China for Chinese netizens around the world.
2026
After multiple Chinese ministries held press conferences, a large number of users in the comment sections called male officials "Big Sis" and "Auntie," which was interpreted as a form of online satire used to evade censorship and express dissatisfaction.
2025-10
In October 2025, a post circulated online from someone claiming to be a Bilibili content reviewer, disclosing operational details of how the platform frequently receives internal orders to take down content, control comments, and direct traffic to specific official accounts when handling hot topics such as foreign visas.
2025-01
In early 2025, after Chinese AI DeepSeek became popular overseas, tests by multiple research institutions found that it systematically filters sensitive topics such as Tiananmen and Xinjiang Uyghur human rights, and that strict ideological alignment remains even when running offline.
2024-07-30
In late July 2024, Lao Dongyan, a professor at Tsinghua University's Law School, published an article openly questioning the network number and network certificate system that the Ministry of Public Security and the Cyberspace Administration of China plan to introduce, arguing that it is essentially the normalization of Health Kit surveillance. The article was swiftly wiped out across the entire internet.
2024-04
In April 2024, Apple said that China's Cyberspace Administration requested, on the grounds of "national security," that it remove Threads from the Chinese App Store. The platform where Fan Yun's team published the relevant video was Threads.
2021-08-04
Voice of the Strait published a post stating that Taiwanese people live in a different environment, so their everyday vocabulary cannot be required to be identical to that of mainland China, and said that Little S's use of the term "national player" is perfectly normal in Taiwan.
2021-06-09
On June 9, 2021, Biden signed an executive order revoking Trump’s bans on WeChat and TikTok, instead directing the Commerce Department to conduct security reviews of related Chinese apps.
2020-08-06
On August 6, 2020, Trump signed an executive order banning U.S. companies and individuals from engaging in WeChat-related transactions with Tencent 45 days later.
2017-09-12
After 19 years on air, the program "Qiangqiang Sanrenxing" suddenly announced on its official Weibo without any warning that it was temporarily suspended due to company program adjustments, and subsequent search results were blocked.
2017-06-30
The 'General Principles for Content Review of Online Audiovisual Programs' were released, requiring online audiovisual programs to be reviewed before broadcast and strictly restricting subjective speculative commentary, mocking serious topics, and negative controversial topics.
2017-06-22
The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television called out Sina Weibo, AcFun, and Phoenix New Media, ordering them to halt audiovisual program services and carry out comprehensive rectification, pointing out that they extensively broadcast non-compliant current affairs audiovisual programs and social commentary programs.
2016-11-07
The Cybersecurity Law was passed in November 2016 and took effect in June 2017, stipulating that platforms are also held responsible when anti-Communist or pornographic content appears on them, and that group owners may be punished if someone in a group violates the rules; thereafter, all platforms greatly increased their content moderation staff.
2014-05-27
At the end of May 2014, all Google websites became inaccessible in China and have never been unblocked since. Foreign websites shifted from a blacklist system to a de facto whitelist system.
2013-01
Southern Weekend's New Year's address "Chinese Dream, Constitutional Dream" was withdrawn by the Propaganda Department of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, marking an intensification of media control.
2010-03-23
After Operation Aurora and multiple clashes and war of words with the Chinese government over search result filtering, Google officially announced its withdrawal from the Chinese mainland market.
2010
Facing strict internet censorship and political pressure, Google chose to exit the Chinese market in 2010.
2009-11-19
In November 2009, Southern Weekly left its front-page headline blank, using an empty layout to protest the propaganda department's forced removal of an editorial accompanying an interview with Obama.
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2009-03
Around the 20th anniversary of the 2009 June Fourth incident, China blocked overseas platforms such as Google, YouTube and Facebook.
2009
Following the July 5 Xinjiang riots in 2009, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were permanently blocked in China.
2006-01-26
On January 26, 2006 (January 25 US time), Google launched the Chinese version of its search engine Google.cn, filtering search results in accordance with the rules of the Chinese authorities, and noted in the footer that some results were not displayed.
2006-01-25
Around January 25, 2006, Google launched a specially tailored google.cn with filtering. Google said that completely denying search to one fifth of the world's population would be a more serious violation of its mission.
2006-01-24
On January 24, 2006, Ice Point Weekly of China Youth Daily was ordered to suspend publication by the Publicity Department of the Communist Youth League Central Committee because it had published an article by Yuan Weishi questioning history textbooks; editor-in-chief Li Datong and deputy editor-in-chief Lu Yuegang were dismissed, and neither of them returned when the publication resumed on March 1.
2005-03-16
On March 16, 2005, the Tsinghua Network Center blocked access from off-campus, and the Shuimu Tsinghua BBS was converted into an on-campus-only system, leaving 82.3% of its former off-campus users unable to log in; on April 14 the servers were taken over by the university, and on April 19 the station affairs committee resigned en masse.
2005
University forums such as Peking University's Weiming and Nanjing University's Xiaobaihe have successively restricted off-campus access and require users to register with their real names.
2004-09-13
Yitaohutu Forum, one of China's largest campus forums, was shut down by Peking University because it was flooded with political commentary and active discussions about the Sun Zhigang case.
2002-08-31
On August 29, 2002, Google was blocked in China for two weeks, regarded as the first major test of Great Firewall technology.
1999-06
In June 1999, under the leadership of Harbin Institute of Technology professor Fang Binxing, the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China was established, aiming to technically block Chinese people from accessing overseas networks, and becoming the origin of the Great Firewall.
1999-01-20
Shanghai software engineer Lin Hai was sentenced to two years in prison for providing 30,000 collected Chinese email addresses to the overseas anti-communist digital journal "VIP Reference," becoming the first person in China to be imprisoned for internet-related activities.
1996-09
According to foreign media reports from around September 1996, China blocked about 100 overseas websites in one fell swoop, including overseas news websites and anti-communist websites. This is the earliest verifiable record of internet censorship.
1996-02-01
Premier Li Peng signed the interim regulations, which explicitly stipulated that China's connection to the international internet must go through official channels, laying the foundation for the Great Firewall.