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China surveillance expands to Twitter and Facebook – Chinese students’ family arrested after students posted news against China in overseas
//The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) controls all internet traffic and bans access to foreign websites. Chinese netizens can only access banned sites via Virtual Private Network (VPN) illegally.
//Chinese people post on overseas platforms without using their true names but they were still monitored and detected by CCP watchdogs.
//The CCP police (Public Security Bureau) also records the frequency of posts and how many had read the posts for every target they identified and investigated.
//While posing on social media deterrence the China people, CCP had already expanded the monitoring around the world. A China student surnamed LOU, who studied in the United States in 2018 and satirized CCP General Secretary XI Jinping on Twitter, was arrested and convicted for “picking and provoking trouble” with 6 months imprisonment when he returned to China in 2019. This incident was deeply concerned by certain American Senators.
//It is extremely scary and controversial – those students post on Twitter without using their real name, how can CCP able to trace them and get to their family?
Full Translation Here: Hong Kong Echo
Source: Central News Agency (Taiwan)
#China #Surveillance #PoliceState #MonitorInternet
//The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) controls all internet traffic and bans access to foreign websites. Chinese netizens can only access banned sites via Virtual Private Network (VPN) illegally.
//Chinese people post on overseas platforms without using their true names but they were still monitored and detected by CCP watchdogs.
//The CCP police (Public Security Bureau) also records the frequency of posts and how many had read the posts for every target they identified and investigated.
//While posing on social media deterrence the China people, CCP had already expanded the monitoring around the world. A China student surnamed LOU, who studied in the United States in 2018 and satirized CCP General Secretary XI Jinping on Twitter, was arrested and convicted for “picking and provoking trouble” with 6 months imprisonment when he returned to China in 2019. This incident was deeply concerned by certain American Senators.
//It is extremely scary and controversial – those students post on Twitter without using their real name, how can CCP able to trace them and get to their family?
Full Translation Here: Hong Kong Echo
Source: Central News Agency (Taiwan)
#China #Surveillance #PoliceState #MonitorInternet
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中國網控伸向推特臉書 留學生海外貼文家人被帶走
中國封鎖民眾瀏覽境外網站，眾多人只能用VPN軟體一窺牆外。然而，越來越多案例顯示，中國官方連民眾翻牆到海外的推特、臉書等網路平台發表意見，也會面臨罰款甚至牢獄之災。