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The Free Press Debate: Should the U.S. Ban TikTok?

What, if anything, should we do about TikTok? Is the forced sale of the fastest-growing social media platform in the world a commonsense step to protect America from the influence of the Chinese Communist Party? Or is legislation that would mandate the app’s sale or ban a threat to free speech? 

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Will Seoul block a fake North Korean Facebook page?

SEOUL, South Korea — The National Police Agency said on Thursday that it’s requesting the South Korean government block the “official” Facebook fan page of Korean Central Television, or KCTV, the Korea Herald reports.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Jun 10, 2013

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Globalizing Censorship

In April 2011, a Vietnamese dissident explained to me why he gave up blogging critically about the government. “We have jobs, motorbikes, nice coffee shops, and big luxury buildings,” he said, pointing to the then-recently opened Bitexco Financial Tower, Ho Chi Minh City’s tallest edifice, with a helicopter landing pad jutting out of its side. “The Communist Party has made this blogging unprofitable. If we go up against them, how do we get a piece of that prosperity?”

By Geoffrey Cain
CARNEGIE COUNCIL for Ethics in International Affairs

Jun 28, 2012

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