China has mastered the craft of policing the internet, operating one of the world’s most extensive online censorship and surveillance regimes. With mandatory identity checks on every online platform, ...

For years, a Chinese-language market for crypto scammers and money launderers—by some measures, the internet's biggest black market of all time—operated in plain sight on the messaging service ...

On July 15, China passed new legislation known as the National Network Identity Authentication, also called Internet ID. Under this new law, Chinese citizens would voluntarily enroll via a government ...

Taylor Hardwick is employed under funding by the Australian Research Council (Future Fellowship #220100076; DECRA #240101275). She is a board member of both Freeplay, a Melbourne-based independent ...