· April, 2012

Stories about Internet governance from April, 2012

China: Battle over the spread and deletion of “rumors”

  17 April 2012

The China propaganda machine continues to launch the war against “rumors” distributing via social media. However, many still believe that people will eventually win in this online battle. Yesterday People's Daily had a featured article on “Internet rumors harm people and harm our society. The public must not believe or...

China: Testing for “Kill Switch” of the World Wide Web?

  13 April 2012

China's internet became an intranet for about two hours on April 12. All internet users in China could not access to the World Wide Web and were cut off from all overseas social networking sites and email services. Netizens believe it is a testing of the web censor for the...