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Joining Apple, Amazon’s China Cloud Service Bows to Censors
Keywords: Apple China, Amazon China, China Censorship,
China's censorship of Internet coverage of democracy movements
01/31/2011
China's censorship of web coverage of the democracy protests in Egypt and Tunisia and other parts of the Arab world.
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Wall Street Journal 11/07/2013
Islamist Party in Tunisia Concedes to Secularists
New York Times 10/27/2014
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New York Times 12/01/2014
Warm West Coast Reception for China's Web Czar (Chillier in Washington)
New York Times 12/08/2014
Obama Upgrades Tunisia’s Status as a U.S. Ally
New York Times 05/21/2015
China Ranks Last of 65 Nations in Internet Freedom
New York Times 10/29/2015
Web Tools, the Internet and Change in countries with one party and autocratic rule
01/29/2011
The examples of Tunia and Egypt contrast with the situation in regimes such as Belarus, Iran and China, where the one party governments have used the web tools to control and stifle dissent and demands for democracy. China has blocked the term "Egypt" for internet users in China, to prevent access to information about the protests in Egypt.
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Xia Yeliang: The China Americans Don't See
Wall Street Journal 10/26/2013
Gregarious and Direct: China’s Web Doorkeeper
New York Times 12/01/2014
China to Embed Internet Police in Tech Firms
Wall Street Journal 08/06/2015
China Ranks Last of 65 Nations in Internet Freedom
New York Times 10/29/2015
Spotlight Again Falls on Web Tools and Change
New York Times 01/29/2011
Egyptian Oppositionâs Old Guard Falls In Behind Young Leaders
New York Times 01/30/2011
China shuts down Apple services iTunes Music and iBooks store to promote local companies and local content
04/21/2016
In an effort to implement president Xi Jinping's policy of reducing the influence of western companies such as IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, Qualcomm in China's core industries, more restrictive policies and efforts to get the companies to share technology were introduced in 2015. Apple was relatively an exception. In April 2016 China's ministry responsible for internet and culture shut down Apple services for books and music. Apart from favoring local companies Huawei, Alibaba, Tencent, this reduces foreign culture's influence in China, a policy favored by the government to maintain what it sees as "positive influence," by local providers.
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Apple Services Shut Down in China in Startling About-Face
New York Times 04/21/2016
China Sales Slide Eats Into Apple Revenue
Wall Street Journal 04/28/2016
Microsoft Shuts Chinese Web Portal as It Shifts Focus There
Wall Street Journal 05/13/2016
Beijing: Apple iPhone Violated Chinese Patent
WSJ 06/17/2016
Tim Cook Pledges More Apple Investment in China
WSJ 08/16/2016
Two SIM Cards and Better Selfies: How China’s Smartphones Are Taking On Apple
WSJ 06/07/2017
China's view of the Internet
08/06/2015
Grouped Articles
China to Embed Internet Police in Tech Firms
Wall Street Journal 08/06/2015
China Ranks Last of 65 Nations in Internet Freedom
New York Times 10/29/2015
Joining Apple, Amazon’s China Cloud Service Bows to Censors
The New York Times 08/01/2017
China's State Internet Information Office and view of the Internet- Lu Wei and control of the Internet
12/01/2014
Grouped Articles
Gregarious and Direct: China’s Web Doorkeeper
New York Times 12/01/2014
Warm West Coast Reception for China's Web Czar (Chillier in Washington)
New York Times 12/08/2014
China to Embed Internet Police in Tech Firms
Wall Street Journal 08/06/2015
China Ranks Last of 65 Nations in Internet Freedom
New York Times 10/29/2015
Joining Apple, Amazon’s China Cloud Service Bows to Censors
The New York Times 08/01/2017
The News Reads You in China—and People Can’t Get Enough of It
WSJ 08/24/2017
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