After China lifted its COVID-19 rules, leading to surging cases, social media censors relax some rules, allowing criticism of protestors but not the government
Austin Ramzy / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @joshchin , @orsoraggiante , and @crehage Tweets: Josh Chin / @joshchin : As Covid-19 sweeps across China following the end of its strict pandemic control...
Sources: hoping to boost the economy, Chinese officials begin reassessing tech policies and plan to close long-running investigations against internet companies
Senior officials are setting a robust GDP growth target of more than 5% for next year as they loosen Covid rules and de-emphasize ideology
A look at Apple's efforts to reduce dependence on Foxconn; sources: Apple wants other suppliers in China, Vietnam, and India to actively plan product assembly
Burned by Covid lockdowns and worker protests at Foxconn plants, the iPhone maker is looking to diversify the supply chain that has powered its growth
A look at Apple's efforts to reduce dependence on Foxconn; sources: Apple wants other suppliers in China, Vietnam, and India to actively plan product assembly
Burned by Covid lockdowns and worker protests at Foxconn plants, the iPhone maker is looking to diversify the supply chain that has powered its growth
Apple's state-backed Chinese data center partner, Guizhou Cloud Big Data, says lockdowns have paralyzed the city of Guiyang, stopping workers from seeing family
China's latest Covid lockdown has virtually paralyzed a city of 6 million that houses much of the country's electronic information …
Officials in Zhengzhou, China, used a location-based health code system to prevent protests by forcing 1,000+ depositors of failing rural banks to quarantine
Financial Times : Tweets: @chinabeigebook , @ftchina , @mmaunder , @wessiedutoit , @empo11on , @dr_ulrichsen , @financialtimes , @alexisak , and @1br0wn Tweets: @chinabeigebook : “Just buying cold me...
A look at the impact of a COVID-19 outbreak at a STMicroelectronics chipmaking factory in Malaysia, as pressure to increase production overrode safety concerns
exempted from lockdown — kept running while Covid killed workers in Malaysia. A harrowing look at how certain decisions by governments and powerful corporations put workers' lives at risk during the p...
Ahead of House hearing, Mark Zuckerberg calls for Section 230 reform that makes protections conditional on platforms' ability to identify and remove content
Want this newsletter delievered to your inbox? — Good evening, Aaron Mackey / Electronic Frontier Foundation : Facebook's Pitch to Congress: Section 230 for Me, But not for Thee Russell Brandom / Th...
Facebook's Oversight Board is taking public comments on Facebook's decision to ban Trump and if it complied with “freedom of expression and human rights”
especially as outside pressure mounted for it to do so. It evolved into a common law-like system of governance over speech, and people started to notice, and (obviously) people got angry. 4/ Howard De...
Pornhub says it has removed all videos from unverified accounts from its platform; the number of hosted videos dropped from 13.5M to 7.2M
More Than 10 Million Videos — From Its Site Charlie Osborne / ZDNet : Pornhub suspends over 10 million videos to eradicate illegal content Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1451: the trouble...