Blog Tag - Censorship

PG-30: Must Protecting Minors Always Affect the Adults in the Room?
你相信光么 Do you believe in the light? For those of us who were born in the '90s and lucky enough to watch TV during those formative years, this slogan...
Kapital Koopas: Level Up Your Staycation With Mario Party Suite, and Who Needs Euro Cup With Mario Kart Tournament Livestreams
Press F to pay respects to all the fallen goombas. It's time for a deep dive into China's gaming culture in our column, Kapital Koopas. 24 Holiday...
Kapital Koopas: Steam Comes to China Alongside New Video Game Rating System
Press F to pay respects to all the fallen goombas. It's time for a deep dive into China's gaming culture in our column, Kapital Koopas. Steam gets...
Kapital Koopas: Beijing Board Game Khan, Weekly Game Rallies and More
Press F to pay respects to all the fallen goombas. It's time for a deep dive into China's gaming culture in our column, Kapital Koopas. Carry your...
Blame TV: The Anime that was Banned For Colorful Hair
The battle between anime and an older generation who just doesn't get it rages on, much like it has for decades. I still remember my parents placing...
Profit, Not Politics, is What Matters in Tencent’s Reddit Stake
As initially reported on Feb 11, Reddit confirmed a Series D funding round led by USD 150 million from Tencent, placing the company at a USD 3...
Beijing Education Authorities Rule out Ads, Hongbao in Student WeChat Groups
Beijing’s Municipal Education Commission on Tuesday published a slew of new rules banning ads, online games, and “red packets,” among others, from...
WeChat Promises to Clean Up Content as Beijing Tightens Crackdown
Chinese social media giant WeChat has pledged to strengthen its self-censorship over sensitive, pornographic, vulgar, and clickbaity content as well...
Google Is Planning a Censored Version of Its Search Engine for China
Google has been planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China under a project code-named Dragonfly, according to documents...
Chinese Gangster Icon Peppa Pig Event and Amusement Park Coming to Beijing
Since CCTV first aired the UK children's cartoon Peppa Pig in 2015, it has taken the country by storm, surpassing 1 billion views on Youku alone....
Weibo Brings Back Sanitized Version of Trending Topics
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode. After a week’s suspension due to the government crackdown, Sina Weibo’s trending...
It's Now Official: WeChat Really Is Watching You
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode. To some extent, WeChat users were already aware of the possibility of the Chinese...
China Issues New Rules for Group Chats on WeChat, QQ, and Others
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode. Chinese authorities issued new regulations (in Chinese) concerning the country’s...
DP Throwback Thursday: 9 Years Ago This Month Youtube Was Blocked
Throwback Thursday takes a look back into Beijing's past, using our nine-year-strong blog archives as the source for a glance at the weird and...
A History of R-Rated Films in China
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at China Film Insider. R-rated Hollywood films have a long history in China, dating to 1995, when...