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William Farris
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Translator "State Prosecutions of Speech in the PRC." https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4168412. Former Google Legal Director managing CN/HK/TW. Alum: Grinnell, Stanford Law, Latham & Watkins, Congressional-Executive Commission on China.
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December 3, 2024 at 4:44 AM
Those are all of the articles I've written so far for the Encyclopedia. I'll continue adding articles as time permits. I'm sharing it as a work-in-progress in the hope I'll get constructive feedback. So if you have any thoughts you'd like to share, please feel free to contact me.
An Encyclopedia of Censorship in the PRC: Volume A
About This Document This document is the working draft of what will hopefully eventually be published as part of a larger work with the working title "An Encyclopedia of Internet Censorship in the Pe...
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November 26, 2024 at 3:33 PM
The 4th article under "Academics" in An Encyclopedia of Censorship in the PRC is about Fan Linqin, the man who posted a 24 page letter on Beijing University campus criticizing Xi Jinping's removal of term limits. The article includes the text of Fan's letter, and shows how Sina Weibo censored it.
November 26, 2024 at 3:33 PM
The 4th article under "Academics" in An Encyclopedia of Censorship in the PRC is about Ding Xiaoping, whose detention in 2009 triggered protests in Beijing. The article includes examples showing all of the PRC major search engines censoring information about his detention and the subsequent protest
November 26, 2024 at 3:33 PM
The 3rd article under "Academics" in An Encyclopedia of Censorship in the PRC is about Cui Weiping, the professor who posted on twitter the reactions of public intellectuals to the jailing of Liu Xiaobo. Her entry includes the texts of those posts, and how Baidu and Yahoo censored her.
November 26, 2024 at 3:33 PM
The 2nd article under "Academics" in An Encyclopedia of Censorship in the PRC is about Chen Hongguo, who the Global Times labeled a "renegade" scholar after he posted his letter resigning his professorship. The article includes the text of his letter, and examples of how Sina Weibo censored him.
November 26, 2024 at 3:33 PM
The 1st entry in An Encyclopedia of Censorship in the PRC is "Academics," and the 1st article is about Cai Xia, and includes the Party decision expelling her, examples of how her articles were deleted and her name was censored, and some of her writings that triggered her expulsion from the Party.
November 26, 2024 at 3:33 PM
My goal with "An Encyclopedia of Censorship in the PRC" is to pull together all the examples of censorship I've archived over the last 20 years and publish them in an encyclopedia format. My plan is to share the document as I work on it, starting with Volume A here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
November 26, 2024 at 3:33 PM