Citizen Lab submission to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China about the State of Human Rights in China

Dr. Emile Dirks’ testimony to the CECC examines Chinese state-backed online censorship—including the Great Firewall and platform-level moderation—highlighting how both Chinese and U.S. firms (notably Microsoft Bing and Apple) implement political and religious censorship with spillover beyond China, and connecting these controls to offline and transnational repression such as harassment campaigns and digital espionage against diaspora communities; it concludes with recommendations for U.S. government action to demand corporate transparency on censorship practices, investigate Bing autosuggestion censorship outside China, and train officials to recognize and assist victims of digital transnational repression.