Category: cyberspace

Online Posts on Chinese Stock Market Analysis Are ‘Bad Influence’: CCP Internet Regulator

Chinese Internet police have engaged in a new wave of suppression of online discussions about the Chinese stock market. A total of 373 social media accounts were shut down in its recent investigation of social media, for forwarding posts that the Internet regulator deemed “rumors and rumor-mongering,” according to a statement by the Cyberspace Administration…


More Than 2,000 Chinese Bloggers Interrogated Over 2 Months

China’s most recent cyberspace clean-up operation issued a report on May 27, detailing two months of targeting bloggers and other social media accounts. As part of the campaign, authorities interrogated 2,089 bloggers, closed 66,600 social media accounts, and deleted 1.41 million posts. Meanwhile, increasingly harsh censorship—reflected in the May 18 arrest of a popular stand-up comedian—has…


LIVE 8:30 AM ET: House Armed Services Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Cyberspace Military Operations

The House Armed Services Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation Subcommittee holds a hearing on Cyberspace Operations: Conflict in the 21st Century at 8:30 a.m. ET March 30, with testimony by Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy John Plumb; and U.S. Cyber Command Commander Gen. Paul Nakasone. …


LIVE NOW: House Armed Services Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Cyberspace Military Operations

The House Armed Services Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation Subcommittee holds a hearing on Cyberspace Operations: Conflict in the 21st Century at 8:30 a.m. ET March 30, with testimony by Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy John Plumb; and U.S. Cyber Command Commander Gen. Paul Nakasone. …


House Armed Services Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Cyberspace Military Operations

The House Armed Services Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation Subcommittee holds a hearing on Cyberspace Operations: Conflict in the 21st Century at 8:30 a.m. ET March 30, with testimony by Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy John Plumb; and U.S. Cyber Command Commander Gen. Paul Nakasone. …


One If By Lenovo, Two If By TikTok

Commentary Things were a lot simpler when we were fighting the Redcoats nearly two and a half centuries ago. Before he famously rode into history in the midnight hour, alerting Colonial militia of the approach of British troops, Paul Revere arranged for Boston’s North Church to use lanterns in its steeple to signal to colonists…


China’s Control Over ‘Algorithms’ Another Challenge for US Investors

Commentary Cue references of a “Matrix”-like dystopian future where Chinese citizens are trapped in a simulated reality managed by state-controlled computer algorithms. It’s not too far-fetched to imagine. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), the country’s cyberspace watchdog, announced recently that it would set up governance and rules to tighten its grip on algorithms companies…


China’s Control Over ‘Algorithms’

Commentary Cue references of a “Matrix”-like dystopian future where Chinese citizens are trapped in a simulated reality managed by state-controlled computer algorithms. It’s not too far-fetched to imagine. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), the country’s cyberspace watchdog, announced recently that it would set up governance and rules to tighten its grip on algorithms companies…