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Reading the news about Charles Xue’s taped confession over the weekend, it’s hard not to feel disheartened. If you missed it, we covered the story yesterday but the short version

Chinese authorities have recently been clamping down on some of the nation’s outspoken celebrity bloggers and Sina Weibo users, trying to temper down a possible rise in online activism. Prominent

Most Chinese internet users probably wouldn’t recognize the name Dong Rubin, but many know the man by his online handle, bianmin (“frontiersman”). Since 2009, the Kunming resident (pictured) has been

Web journalist/activist Deng Fei is already a pretty famous guy in China’s cyberspace. In part through social media, he’s orchestrated a number of online campaigns, most of them targeted at

Late this morning, the GMIC main stage hosted what I’m pretty sure is going to be my favorite discussion of the conference: the one where they focus on doing good,