Hong Kong’s summer of political unrest is going global. In Toronto, Chinese flags flutter out the side of pricey convertibles, engines revving loudly. In Edinburgh, Beijing backers belt out lyrics from a Taiwanese pop song ...
MOSCOW—As Vladimir Putin’s Russia increasingly cracks down on internet freedoms, a band of self-styled pirates is fighting back. The group of fewer than a dozen lawyers and techies calling themselves Roskomsvoboda—or Russian Communications Freedom—has notched ...
Claire Law tracks her daughter’s location in Hong Kong using a map on the Snapchat app and messages her hourly. Paige Macgregor and her family have stopped taking the subway and buses. Hui Wan Fung ...
Like many advertisers, Fidelity Investments wants to avoid advertising online near controversial content. The Boston-based financial-services company has a lengthy blacklist of words it considers off-limits. If one of those words is in an article’s ...
NEW DELHI—India’s government said it would begin to relax communications and other restrictions in the disputed northern state of Jammu and Kashmir after initiating the curbs last week in a bid to prevent unrest. New ...