William Farris

A couple of absolutely gorgeous Papuan Frogmouths photographed in Papua, Indonesia.

A couple of absolutely gorgeous Papuan Frogmouths photographed in Papua, Indonesia. Just before I took this shot they were nuzzling one another. One of my favorite #birds. Canon R5II + 200-800mm.

A Purple Swamphen making tracks on Dhinchada Lake outside Jamnagar, India. #birds

Photo of a Malagasy Kingfisher taken in the Allée des Baobabs, Morondava, Madagascar. R5.II, 200-800mm.

Photo of a Malagasy Kingfisher taken in the Allée des Baobabs, Morondava, Madagascar. R5.II, 200-800mm.

A Spotted Owlet photographed in India. R5.II, 200-800mm.

A Spotted Owlet photographed in India. R5.II, 200-800mm.
#birds

A bald eagle is mobbed by a red tail hawk that didn't appreciate it coming into its territory.

Its been over a year since I last posted on social media. Can't say I feel like I've missed much. . . still, one of my 2026 resolutions is to try to be less...what I used to be, so this year I'll try to share some photos, mostly #birds, starting with this eagle and hawk kerfuffle. R5.II, 200-800mm.

Useful idiots also ignore that PRC law requires foreign companies to divest 50% if they want to operate Internet services. Special Administrative Measures for Foreign Investment Access, Item 14: "... the foreign shareholding ratio of value-added telecommunications businesses shall not exceed 50%."

Some of my photos showing examples of Chile's amazing geographic variety from a recent trip.

Here's screenshots from the PRC government run China Daily showing that until this week, when referring to "Xiaohongshu" it has always used "Little Red Book," not "Rednote." Same goes for the China Communist Party sponsored English language propaganda outlet, Global Times.

Photos of some #birds I took on a recent trip to Chile. Taken with a Sony RX10.

Biked/hiked up Guanyin Mountain this morning and managed to get, like, maybe 10 minutes of direct sunlight. Never been more grateful for anything. . . . #taipeiwinternosunever

East Shore was a real gift. Here's some photos I took there a few years back.

Latest "Encyclopedia of Censorship in the PRC" entry is professor Lao Dongyan, and includes David Cowhig's @gaodawei.bsky.social translation of her essay "Facing the Real World," which was censored by Tencent's Weixin: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Baidu still censors her name: archive.li/gdFWV.

I translated the lower court judgment in Ruan Xiaohuan's case here: blog.feichangdao.com/2023/03/tran.... Consistent with recent practice, the court said nothing about what was subversive.

I also translated several of his blog posts here: blog.feichangdao.com/2023/07/tran....

Just added an article on Jiao Guobiao (焦国标) to my "Encyclopedia of Censorship in the PRC." Includes examples of Baidu and Sina Weibo censoring his name, and a translation of his "Crusade Against the Central Propaganda Department."
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Went back to the Guandu, Taiwan wetlands and managed to get that Barbett and Kingfisher this time, as well as a juvenile Malay Night Heron and a Chinese Bulbul.

Location: maps.app.goo.gl/tF64nyw7cutm...

Thanks @petarbphoto.bsky.social and @helenbennett.bsky.social for your kind comments!

#birds

An update to my "Encyclopedia": an article on PRC censorship of Jiang Ping, former President of the China University of Political Science and Law, and NPC Standing Committee member. Includes screenshots of Baidu and Youdao censoring "Jiang Ping Open Letter."
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Biked about 15 minutes and spent an hour photographing #birds in the Guandu, Taiwan, wetlands before heading on to Costco. Also saw a Barbette and a Kingfisher, but the darn things just wouldn't sit still...

And a ship! Don't forget the ship!

Latest "Encyclopedia of Censorship in the PRC" entry is coincidentally another scholar (after Gao Quanxi) censored for supporting Xu Zhangrun: Tsinghua prof. Guo Yuhua (郭于华). Article includes Baidu's censorship and translations of Guo's essays/interviews.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Updated the working draft of "An Encyclopedia of Censorship in the PRC" with a new article on Gao Quanxi, a Constitutional Law professor who expressed support for fellow scholar Xu Zhangrun, and whose name was (and continues to be) censored on Baidu. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

archive.ph/WbuiJ

I did a blog post about censorship of the White Paper Protests on the 1st anniversary last year: blog.feichangdao.com/2023/12/inte.... Checked again today and all PRC search engines are still censoring "白纸革命." You can see archive's of Baidu's censorship of that term here: archive.ph/https://www....

An Encyclopedia of Censorship in the PRC: Volume A About This Document This document is the working draft of what will hopefully eventually be published as part of a larger work with the working title "An Encyclopedia of Internet Censorship in the Pe...

Those are all of the articles I've written so far for the Encyclopedia. I'll continue adding articles as time permits. I'm sharing it as a work-in-progress in the hope I'll get constructive feedback. So if you have any thoughts you'd like to share, please feel free to contact me.

The 4th article under "Academics" in An Encyclopedia of Censorship in the PRC is about Fan Linqin, the man who posted a 24 page letter on Beijing University campus criticizing Xi Jinping's removal of term limits. The article includes the text of Fan's letter, and shows how Sina Weibo censored it.

The 4th article under "Academics" in An Encyclopedia of Censorship in the PRC is about Ding Xiaoping, whose detention in 2009 triggered protests in Beijing. The article includes examples showing all of the PRC major search engines censoring information about his detention and the subsequent protest

The 3rd article under "Academics" in An Encyclopedia of Censorship in the PRC is about Cui Weiping, the professor who posted on twitter the reactions of public intellectuals to the jailing of Liu Xiaobo. Her entry includes the texts of those posts, and how Baidu and Yahoo censored her.

The 2nd article under "Academics" in An Encyclopedia of Censorship in the PRC is about Chen Hongguo, who the Global Times labeled a "renegade" scholar after he posted his letter resigning his professorship. The article includes the text of his letter, and examples of how Sina Weibo censored him.

The 1st entry in An Encyclopedia of Censorship in the PRC is "Academics," and the 1st article is about Cai Xia, and includes the Party decision expelling her, examples of how her articles were deleted and her name was censored, and some of her writings that triggered her expulsion from the Party.

My goal with "An Encyclopedia of Censorship in the PRC" is to pull together all the examples of censorship I've archived over the last 20 years and publish them in an encyclopedia format. My plan is to share the document as I work on it, starting with Volume A here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

An Encyclopedia of Censorship in the PRC: Volume A About This Document This document is the working draft of what will hopefully eventually be published as part of a larger work with the working title "An Encyclopedia of Internet Censorship in the Pe...

Now that there's a critical mass of China expertise on Bluesky, I won't be posting on Twitter anymore. For those who started following me here, I mainly post my personal photos and about my research on censorship in the PRC. My latest project is an open-source encyclopedia of censorship in the PRC.

Rui Chenggang (芮成钢) beginning a rehabilitation tour? In 2016 PRC state media said he was taken away by prosecutors in 2014. These screenshots show just after that report, PRC Internet companies began censoring results for his name: blog.feichangdao.com/2016/04/baid....

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