The fraudian on censorship...China's censorship, that is!
Posted by Ed on September 3, 2024, 5:26 am
As I can't help but often say, do these hacks ever listen to themselves? Sarah Wilkinson, anyone? You couldn't make it up!
quote How China’s internet police went from targeting bloggers to their followers In recent months, followers of influential liberal bloggers have been interviewed by police as China widens its net of online surveillance...
...Late last year, Duan*, a university student in China, used a virtual private network to jump over China’s great firewall of internet censorship and download social media platform Discord...
...Being punished for comments made online is common in China, where the internet is tightly regulated. As well as a digital firewall that blocks the majority of internet users from accessing foreign websites like Google, Facebook and WhatsApp, people who publish content on topics deemed sensitive or critical of the government often find themselves banned from websites, or worse...
...The incident is just one sign of the growing severity of China’s censorship regime, under which even private followers of unfavourable accounts can get into trouble. “I don’t think I’ve seen followers of influencers being questioned to this extent in the past,” said Maya Wang, the associate China director at Human Rights Watch...
As someone who resides in the People's Republic of China, a part that used to be administered (exploited) by the British, I'm sick of the anti-Chinese crap coming out of the UK MSM - if Chinese society and its Rulers were so bad, we'd see a mass expdus from China, particularly by those who have enjoyed a Western Higher Education education - this has not happened, quite the reverse indeed, one reason China is leaping ahead of the West in Science and Technology.
As it stands, in Hong Kong I can access more websites/web platforms than peeps in the UK/EU, i.e., not too many bans and, if something falls foul of Chinese law, you can use a VPN, which most savvy Chinese youth have been doing for more than 15 years with little 'crack down'.
China may not be a perefect society, but compared to the West and its fascist direction I'd prefer my own nipper growing up in China than in a society that is literally imploding.
This from the organ that hasn't mentioned the arrest of Sarah Wilkinson yet! Yeh, I'm sure you're really concerned with censorship of the press.......no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
on September 3, 2024, 5:26 am