Category: English
English-language publications of the Free China Movement.
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New Working Paper Tests Whether AI Can Extend the Great Firewall Into Knowledge Production
Free China Movement publishes Working Paper 1.0 on whether AI-era information controls can affect legitimate knowledge search, with a preregistered model-audit framework and explicit falsification criteria.
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New Working Paper Examines the Great Firewall as a Potential Innovation Tax on Mainland China’s Frontier Economy
A revised scholarly edition of Working Paper 0.5 examines whether information restrictions become more economically consequential as mainland China approaches the technological frontier.
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Analysis: ZCode Cloud-Upload Dispute Shows Why AI Coding Agents Need Verifiable Data Controls
Analysis of the ZCode repository-upload controversy and why AI coding agents need explicit consent, auditable data scope, retention transparency and independent verification.
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Great Firewall of China: Technical History, Censorship Mechanisms, Cases, Data and Circumvention
A research hub on the Great Firewall of China covering DNS poisoning, TCP resets, TLS interference, IP blocking, active probing, major cases, datasets, historical countermeasures and a reproducible measurement model.
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Zhang Zhan / 张展 — Wuhan Citizen Journalist, Two Prison Terms and Information Control
Canonical profile of citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, covering her Wuhan COVID-19 reporting, 2020 four-year sentence, 2024 rearrest and second four-year sentence in 2025.
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Chen Mei / 陈玫 and Cai Wei / 蔡伟 — Terminus 2049 Censorship-Archive Case
Canonical case page for Chen Mei and Cai Wei, founders of Terminus 2049, a project that archived censored Chinese-language online material including COVID-19 reporting.
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Li Zehua / 李泽华 — Wuhan Livestreaming, Disappearance and Supervised-Quarantine Case
Canonical profile of journalist Li Zehua, whose 2020 Wuhan livestreams, disappearance and later account of supervised quarantine illustrate person-level constraints on independent reporting.
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Chen Qiushi / 陈秋实 — Wuhan Citizen Journalism and Information-Control Case
Canonical profile of citizen journalist Chen Qiushi and his 2020 Wuhan reporting, disappearance, and later reported release under close surveillance.
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Li Wenliang / 李文亮 — Early COVID-19 Warning, Police Admonition and Information-Control Debate
Canonical case profile of Dr. Li Wenliang, whose early COVID-19 warning and police admonition became central to debate over information control and freedom of expression.
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Zhao Jing / 赵京 (An Ti / 安替) — Microsoft MSN Spaces Censorship Case
Canonical profile of blogger Zhao Jing (An Ti), whose MSN Spaces blog removal in 2005 became an important case in the history of platform compliance and online speech in China.