Navigating China’s censorship and India’s apps ban, Tibetan refugees rethink their dependence on WeChat.
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Author: Tibet Action Institute (Tibet Action Institute)
August 18, 2020October 8, 2020
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You Spy, We Chat
Tenzin Choedak spent much of his life cut off from his family. He fled his native Tibet as a young boy in 1991 and traveled to India with his uncle, amid the growing infringement of cultural and political rights at home. At the time, landline phones were the only available means of communication, but pricey...
July 30, 2020October 8, 2020
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RFA: བོད་ཕྱི་ནང་གི་བོད་མིའི་བར་འབྲེལ་ལམ་དང་སྐད་འཕྲིན། Wechat and its significance to Tibetans inside and outside Tibet
རྒྱ་ནག་གིས་བཟོས་པའི་འཕྲིན་གཏོང་མཉེན་ཆས་མ་ལག་མང་པོ་ཞིག་རྒྱ་གར་ནང་སྒོ་བརྒྱབས་པ་དང་མཚུངས། བོད་ཕྱི་ནང་གི་བོད་མིའི་བར་འབྲེལ་ལམ་གྱི་མ་ལག་སྐད་འཕྲིན་Wechat སྒོ་བརྒྱབས་པའི་དགེ་སྐྱོན་སྐོར། Discussion about Chinese app Wechat and it’s significance to Tibetans inside and outside Tibet
July 22, 2020July 23, 2020
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Testifying at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Hearing
U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Hearing Technological Surveillance of Religion in China Speaker: Lobsang Gyatso Sither, Digital Security Program Director, Tibet Action Institute I would like to thank the commission for giving me the opportunity to testify on behalf of Tibetans inside Tibet whose voices are censored and surveilled. I am honored to be...
June 22, 2020September 10, 2024
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Technology Analysts, Developers, Journalists, and Activists Challenge Apple’s Complicity with Chinese Government Censorship
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, June 22, 2020 CONTACT: Lobsang Gyatso, Tibet Action Institute |+91 98824 07365 | [email protected] Technology Analysts, Developers, Journalists, and Activists Challenge Apple’s Complicity with Chinese Government Censorship The first-ever Worldwide Developers Against Apple Censorship Conference (WWDAACC) kicked off this morning, hacking questions on human rights & censorship for China’s App Store...
June 20, 2020June 22, 2020
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June 18, 2020June 18, 2020
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June 18, 2020September 10, 2024
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Technology, Human Rights, Freedom of Expression Activists & Prominent Artists to Expose Apple Censorship
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, June 18, 2020 CONTACT: Lobsang Gyatso, Tibet Action Institute |+91 98824 07365 | [email protected] Pema Doma, Students for a Free Tibet | +1 617-792-3606 | [email protected] “Freedom of Expression Concert” & “Worldwide Developers Against Apple Censorship Conference” to Coincide with Apple’s Famed Developers Conference [New York / Dharamsala] – As Apple...
May 6, 2020May 6, 2020
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Creating a Culture of Responsibility Online
Host: Sonam Wangdue, Actor and Comedian Speakers: Lobsang Gyatso Sither, Digital Security Program Director Tenzin Choedon, Manager of Educational Initiatives
May 4, 2020May 4, 2020
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Tibetan netizens express the need for their mother-tongue
In early April, schools in Ngaba, eastern Tibet reopened following the Covid-19 outbreak. However, schools were told the use of Tibetan language in classes would be scrapped as of September, when the next academic year begins. Human Rights Watch detailed that threat in primary schools in Tibet: the gradual replacement of Tibetan-language instruction with the...