2026-11-12
Recently, netizens entered the names Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping into the Zuoyebang AI and received lengthy biographical introductions. However, when asking about Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping, the input was displayed as six asterisks, and the AI replied three times: "Let's change the subject～".
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.
2026-11-05
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
Multiple netizens tested and found that ByteDance's AI, Doubao, can repeat negative reviews of other brands but refuses to repeat 'Huawei is not good to use,' claiming that Huawei products are recognized by users. This has sparked mockery and questioning among netizens regarding the AI's stance and censorship system.
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).
2026-11-04
On November 4, iPhones in China enabled Apple Intelligence alongside the iOS 27.3 developer beta. The activation page indicates that to comply with Chinese regulations, the device will automatically download and update security mechanisms provided by local companies and collect anonymized security result summaries for sharing, without specifying the content or the recipients of the shared data.
2026-11-04
Screenshots submitted by netizens show that when using the iPhone's cleanup tool to process photos of Xi Jinping or meme images of Mao Zedong, the system prompts: 'According to relevant laws and regulations, this image cannot be processed.' When asked what happened on June 4, 1989, Qwen replied: 'Let's change the subject.'
2026-11-04
Taiyuan University of Technology released a procurement intention in the same batch, planning to spend 340,000 yuan to purchase internet behavior management equipment. It requires coverage of all faculty, students, and various terminals, integration with unified identity authentication, and the capability for website access control and internet behavior auditing.
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
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.
2026-10-28
Reuters reported on October 28 that Kylian Mbappé is facing contract terminations from sponsors and condemnation from state media in China for calling Mao Zedong a dictator. His original remarks are largely inaccessible on the Chinese internet, with sports analysts describing the backlash as a manufactured outrage.
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, Weibo users reported that when they asked what "inappropriate remarks" Mbappé had made, multiple Chinese AI apps, including Doubao, DeepSeek, and Xiaowei AI, all refused to answer.
2026-10-26
On October 26, some netizens reported that the Cangdun postgraduate exam mini program required real-name verification after its update that day.
2026-10-24
On October 24, netizens reported that sending words containing specific Chinese characters, such as 'xuexi niux', in Douyin comment sections was intercepted by the system with a violation warning.
2026-10-24
On October 24, some netizens found that in train schedule search software, neither G-prefix nor C-prefix trains carry the number 8964, while trains such as G8961, G8962, G8965 and C8963, C8965 can be found, apparently deliberately avoiding the sensitive number June Fourth (64).
2026-10-22
Freedom House's annual report says global internet freedom has declined for the 16th consecutive year, with China and Myanmar continuing to rank among the worst countries for internet freedom in the world.
2026-10-20
On October 20, the Minecraft launchers HMCL and PCL Community Edition successively merged download restriction code targeting mainland China, with no exemptions set for adults or genuine accounts.
2026-10-19
On October 19, People's Daily published a commentary calling for the “cleanup and removal” of “jingri” speech and conduct and related identifying content, and for “blocking the channels of coordination” in regard to acts that use circles and groups to organize, incite and carry out harassment.
2026-10-18
According to a post by X user QuanLujun and a shared link, on October 18, 2026, an unusual livestream appeared on the Douyin platform, with more than 2,000 users watching the moderators' working status online, drawing netizens' attention and discussion.
2026-10-14
On October 14, the Suzhou Government Procurement website published a correction notice; the Suzhou Health Information Center's Health and Medical Big Data Center project listed a cross-border VPN monitoring device, required to identify protocols such as Shadowsocks, V2Ray, Trojan, and WireGuard and automatically match cross-border communication behavior, while also building large-model content safety guardrails, providing a safe substitute answer function for sensitive questions.
2026-10-13
On October 13, Yiwu Industrial and Commercial Vocational and Technical College announced the winning bid result for the "circumvention traffic audit system construction" project, with a bid price of 170,000 yuan. The bid documents require the system to query cross-border internet access records by account and generate personnel profiles, specifically naming BBC, the Chinese edition of The New York Times, China Digital Times, as well as X, Telegram, YouTube, etc., to identify no fewer than 200 circumvention "airports" (VPN providers) and block them in coordination with the firewall.
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.
2026-10-12
On October 12, a netizen posted a video saying that when using a domestic AI tool to remove passers-by from the background of a photo, the software indicated that the image contained sensitive information because the background included the Five-Starred Red Flag and could not be processed, sparking heated discussion among netizens.
2026-10-11
On October 11, a netizen posted a photo of a political exam paper. In option D of question 10, the characters "Jinping" in "Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era" were replaced by asterisks, written as "Xi**".
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."
2026-10-03
At Beijing time October 3, 2026, the account China Digital Times (@CDT) published its "404 Deleted Content Archive" roundup for August 2026. The report reviewed and archived representative topics and articles that were censored and deleted on the Chinese internet that month, covering cross-talk comedian Guo Degang, sexual assault at a dinner party, Huawei and "Bamboo Cicada," security checks around Tiananmen, the box-office dark-horse phenomenon of the film "Niu Lai," and the Jilong floods, along with related public opinion and reports.
2026-10-03
On October 3, a netizen posted that QQ Music was offering premium numbers for 68 yuan. Screenshots showed numbers from 19890601 to 19890603 and 19890605 on sale, with only 19890604 — corresponding to June 4, 1989 — missing, suspected to have been blocked due to censorship.
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.
2026-09-30
On September 30, China's Cyberspace Administration of China issued a notice launching a two-month special campaign focused on rectifying five types of short video misconduct: posing as vulnerable groups, fabricating professional qualifications, AI impersonation of people, attracting traffic through displays of wealth and superstition, and making up domestic violence and kidnapping storylines, while strictly prohibiting fake persona content from being pushed through rankings and recommendation slots.
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.
2026-09-23
The comments section of the CCTV Finance Musk interview video shows “author has enabled filtering, some comments are not displayed”, and some comments are restricted.
2026-09-22
A BBC Verify investigation found that Apple Maps massively blurs satellite imagery within China, covering military, government, and Xinjiang detention facilities. Apple responded that it must comply with local laws.
2026-09-18
On September 18, the Cyberspace Administration of China issued a notice requiring platforms to clean up negative information inconsistent with official corporate statements, and categorized behaviors such as parodying corporate logos, products, and entrepreneurs' portraits as false and misleading handling scopes, demanding platforms to implement whole-process audits and strict handling of enterprise-related information.
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, Xiaohongshu released the "Community Financial Ecological Charter", prohibiting malicious bearish calls, illegal stock recommendations and other behaviors. The platform disclosed that since the beginning of the year, it has dealt with over 1.01 million violating notes, 157,000 violating accounts, and more than 4.77 million violating comments, and pledged to strengthen algorithmic self-discipline to curb extreme market sentiment.
2026-09-16
On September 16, netizens reported that Xiaohongshu updated its Dandelion platform rules, classifying doctors, pharmacists, nurses, and other medical workers as a sector-wide prohibited collaboration group, banning them from undertaking commercial posts for any industry, which sparked public skepticism.
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.
2026-09-12
Jun Zhengping Studio released recruitment information, defining itself as the military's brand dedicated to online commentary, with tasks including actively posting comments.
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.
2026-09-09
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.
2026-09-10
Apple's press conference on September 10 announced that Intelligence supports multiple languages, but noted it is unavailable in mainland China, stating its release depends on regulatory approval.
2026-09-10
The "Huai'an City Public Opinion Dual Rankings" test panel shown in the illustration accompanying the Anthropic report lists land rights defense, property disputes, tap water complaints, and others under the "Sensitive Cases and Incidents Ranking."
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.
2026-09-02
On September 2, 2026, the Cyberspace Administration of China reported on the second phase of the Qinglang special campaign, naming domestic AI platforms such as Doubao, Yuanbao and Qwen for strictly censoring raw training data and restricting the output of non-compliant content.
2026-09-01
On September 1, 2026, new management regulations targeting self-media and MCN agencies officially took effect, mandating that accounts display their affiliated agencies and prohibiting the rehashing of negative information and the incitement of netizens' emotions.
2026-09
According to Order No. 23 recently issued by the Cyberspace Administration of China, MCN agencies have been included as responsible parties on a par with platforms. If a streamer under them has problems, the entire MCN may face a joint ban.
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.
2026-08-17
On August 17, 2026, tech media exposed macOS system code showing that Apple has established an independent content security filtering mechanism for the Chinese mainland market, with user editing restricted and security updates required.
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.
2026-08-11
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.
2026-08-10
On August 10, 2026, the Ministry of Public Security released 15 typical cases of fabricating and spreading rumors related to floods and disasters during the "Clean Net 2026" special operation, involving Guangdong, Anhui, Gansu, Guangxi and other places, and multiple netizens involved were given administrative penalties.
2026-08-10
Recently, the Douyin account "Positive Energy" posted a video singing songs praising the Chinese Communist Party. Because the bullet comment "hao ni ma" was blocked by the platform, netizens flipped it into "ma ni hao" and collectively flooded the screen to bypass censorship.
2026-08-09
In some comment sections of Chinese financial bloggers' short videos, a phenomenon of zero comments has emerged. Even when the content is just sharing personal investment profits or losses, it is possible that no similar experiences from other users can be seen.
2026-08-07
The Ministry of Public Security issued Order No. 176, promulgating the Measures for Cyberspace Security Supervision and Inspection, expanding the scope of network inspections and taking effect on October 1.
2026-08-07
On August 17, 2026, the legal community and foreign media disclosed that the Ministry of Public Security announced the latest supervision measures, expanding the authority of cybersecurity inspections and, for the first time, directly bringing ordinary individuals and personal data processing activities within the scope of routine police inspections and document reviews.
2026-08-04
The Cyberspace Administration of China has announced a batch of enforcement actions against malicious hype of company-related information, involving accounts that published false information about Li Auto, hyped negative information about companies, and maliciously attacked corporate executives.
2026-08
In August 2026, the AI model invocation volume leaderboard at the Tiangang Intelligent Computing exhibition area of the Shanghai World Artificial Intelligence Convention drew attention: domestic models such as DeepSeek were displayed with their names directly, while some mainstream overseas models were replaced with generic labels such as "general reasoning model."
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.
2026-07-23
On July 23, 2026, the Cyberspace Administration of China and the Ministry of Emergency Management jointly issued a notice, deploying a special campaign to rectify illegal and harmful information related to disaster incidents during the flood season, severely cracking down on online speech concerning disasters. On the same day, the Ministry of Public Security publicized 20 typical cases of disaster-related rumors.
2026-07-21
On July 21, 2026, the CCP Central Committee's Cyberspace Administration of China and other departments issued a plan to advance IPv6 single-stack technology innovation and application. Foreign media analysis argues that underlying architectural reforms such as NAT removal and enhanced source address verification could further deepen online censorship and real-name tracking.
2026-07-13
On July 13, 2026, the Cybersecurity Bureau of China's Ministry of Public Security reported 25 cases of online speech violations and crimes related to floods and disasters, in which 4 people were criminally detained and 23 people were given administrative penalties, strengthening control over disaster-related public opinion.
2026-07-08
On July 8, 2026, an institution under China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a security alert claiming that the AI tool Claude Code poses hidden dangers such as sending information back; Anthropic responded that the mechanism is an anti-abuse feature and that its service has not been made available in mainland China.
2026-07-03
the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Cyberspace Administration of China releases a new draft of the Internet Information Service Management Measures, increasing the articles from the current 27 to 94, and incorporating content such as artificial intelligence, self-media, recommendation algorithms, and jurisdiction over overseas information.
2026-07
OpenAI released a report stating that the CCP uses AI-generated content to attack specific online influencers and mislead them into making anti-American statements, while also posing as fake accounts to intervene in online public opinion.
2026-07
In July 2026, it was reported online that a state-owned enterprise in Shandong issued an internal notice claiming that the foreign AI tool Claude Code has a covert marking mechanism targeting Chinese users, requiring all departments to comprehensively screen and stop using it and to switch to a domestic coding agent within a set deadline.
2026-07
In July 2026, a compliance notice on product promotion and ad traffic placement issued by a third party on the Douyin platform showed that sensitive words such as "black slaves," "civilians," "paupers," "refugees," and "business wars" are prohibited in commercial promotional materials.
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.
2026-06-21
On June 21, the Ministry of State Security of the Chinese Communist Party issued a warning stating that overseas spy agencies are using online pop-up advertisements to conduct intelligence collection and ideological infiltration.
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.
2026-06-09
Short video platform Douyin, cooperating with Chinese regulators' campaign against illegal cross-border stock trading, took down and dealt with more than 1,500 short videos involving guidance and tutorials on applying for Hong Kong bank cards, opening Hong Kong securities accounts, and other cross-border investment instruction.
2026-06
The Cyberspace Administration of China issued new regulations prohibiting the dissemination and discussion of topics related to U.S. stocks and other overseas investments, targeting internet platforms and domestic self-media for rectification.
2026-05-29
On May 29, the Cyberspace Administration of China issued a notice deciding to launch a two-month nationwide special action titled "Qinglang: Optimizing the Business Network Environment and Cracking Down on Malicious Hype of Enterprise-Related Information," aimed at combating malicious hype targeting enterprises online.
2026
The video says that the Hebei Cyberspace Administration of China recently issued notices to all counties and cities, demanding that they manage their jurisdictions and further strengthen control over people who speak online.
2025-12-05
On December 5, netizens discovered that after “Diao Maihu” and “She Japan,” Weibo was also circulating euphemisms for Xi Jinping such as “i in ing,” “she dripping,” “shejumping,” and “skipping,” and that these had already been automatically indexed by the algorithm into search suggestions.
2025-11-29
After the short film was released, it drew mockery from netizens and was subsequently taken down by CCTV.
2025-10-13
On October 13, Hu Xijin posted that many people today are increasingly careful about speaking out on social media, or simply do not post at all. This is a loss for the sphere of public information in the internet age, it makes the face of public opinion no longer complete, and it is not the kind of collective "silencing" that an open society should have.
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.
2025-09-30
On September 30, Zhejiang Propaganda published an article criticizing Hu Chenfeng, pointing out that he uses worship of the foreign to dissolve consensus, exploits young people's anxiety to harvest consumers, and uses extreme emotions to distort values. Previously, Zhang Xuefeng had already been criticized for shaking the foundations of the state.
2025
The Chinese Communist Party has launched the "Qinglang" campaign to crack down on self-media, stipulating that individuals without qualifications in the financial, medical, and legal fields are barred from speaking out.
2025
During the 2025 Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei floods, the Cyberspace Administration issued a press release and, together with the police, said it would crack down on military-related rumors.
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.
2024
The Qinglang Campaign proposes ten task objectives, requiring platforms such as Douyin and Bilibili to adjust their algorithms and recommendation mechanisms to ensure content distribution aligns with so-called mainstream values.
2024-01
According to a 2024 report by the Financial Times, a research institution under the Cyberspace Administration of China has developed a chatbot that allows large language models to learn Xi Jinping Thought and official documents.
2023-07-10
The Cyberspace Administration of China is targeting foreign-related speech, requiring that information regarding domestic and international current affairs, public policy, and social events be labeled with its source, and linking account monetization privileges to compliance status.
2022-11-16
The Cyberspace Administration of China has introduced regulations for managing internet comment interactions, bringing comments, replies, messages, bullet chats, and likes under supervision, and allowing platforms to take measures such as account bans and silencing.
2021-08-27
The Cyberspace Administration of China has launched a special rectification targeting financial information, identifying activities such as distorting interpretations of financial policies and macro data, or maliciously betting against financial markets, as targets for governance, covering financial self-media accounts and information platforms.
2021-04-09
On April 9, 2021, the Reporting Center of the Cyberspace Administration of China launched a special reporting zone for harmful information related to historical nihilism, accepting reports of distortions of the history of the Party and the history of New China, attacks on the Party's leadership, and so on.
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.
2016-02-04
China introduced the Regulations on Online Publishing Service Management and the Cybersecurity Law in 2016.
2015-03-10
Minister of Human Resources and Social Security Yin Weimin introduced the gradual delayed retirement policy at the Two Sessions press conference. That evening, CCTV's "Two Sessions 1+1" made it a key topic, and Bai Yansong explained it on the program as an inevitable trend whose benefits outweigh its drawbacks.
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.
2014-02-27
In 2014, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) established the Central Cybersecurity and Informatization Leadership Group, with Xi Jinping serving as its head.
2013-09-09
In 2013, the Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate issued a judicial interpretation stipulating that online commentary reposted 500 times or more can be prosecuted as the crime of defamation.
2013-08-10
China has begun a crackdown on major online influencers, issuing regulations such as the “Seven Bottom Lines for Cyberspace”, and Ren Zhiqiang foresaw the danger of speaking the truth in his book.
2011
After the Wenzhou train collision triggered an uncontrollable wave of public opinion on Weibo, the central government began implementing real-name registration for Weibo and strengthened public opinion control under the guise of combating rumors.
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.
2010
In 2010, after IMDb listed a film about the Dalai Lama, China punitively blocked the IMDb website.
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.
2007-10
YouTube was blocked across mainland China for the first time, and access was restored a few days later.
2007-01-23
On January 23, 2007, the 38th collective study session of the CCP Politburo, themed on the building and management of online culture, Hu Jintao stressed strengthening the building and management of online culture.
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.
2005-04
In April 2005, Suqian in Jiangsu publicly recruited 26 online commentators, one example of localities building teams of internet commentators.
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.
2004-10
In October 2004, the Changsha Municipal Party Committee's External Propaganda Office set up a team of internet commentators with a base salary of 600 yuan per month, supplemented by pay based on posting volume, five mao per post — hence the term "five mao."
2003-08-19
Bai Yansong resigned from his positions as producer of News Meeting Room, China Weekly, and Time and Space Link because he felt that the producer role made his expression mediocre and led to self-censorship, while retaining his role as host.
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.
2001
At the 2001 annual meeting of CCTV's "Tell It Like It Is" program team, a satirical comedy short, "Division of the Family in October," was produced, in which colleagues openly mocked Bai Yansong's rationalizing, brow-furrowing, preachy style by remixing Soviet films and their character names.
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.
1998-09-22
The Ministry of Public Security has launched the national public security informatization project, known as the Golden Shield Project, aimed at collecting information such as household registration, educational background, and residential addresses of Chinese citizens and achieving a nationwide network.
1997-12-16
On December 11, 1997, China promulgated the Measures for the Security Protection of International Networking of Computer Information Networks, putting forward the "nine prohibitions," which include banning pornography and banning criticism of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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.
1993-05-01
“Oriental Horizon” officially went on air, and Bai Yansong, from a temporary planner, was pushed in front of the camera, ushering in a period of public opinion supervision later known as the “mini spring” of CCTV news.