China censorship and the 'Social Credit Score System'
In china it is forbidden or really ill-advised to criticise
'the party'.
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Journalist sentenced to three years in a labour camp
(RSF/IFEX) - In a letter to Public Security Minister Jia Chunwang, RSF protested the sentence handed down to journalist and dissident Liu Haofeng, to three years in a labour camp. RSF asked the minister to release the journalist. "Once again a journalist is secretly sentenced to a harsh punishment. The Chinese government is demonstrating that it is not prepared to respect its international commitments," affirmed RSF Secretary-General Robert Ménard. RSF also expressed its concern after the adoption of a new rule called the "Seven Nos", of which the goal is to increase state control over the media. "This rule could result in the arrest of journalists who try to report on corruption or other spectacular and sensitive subjects, or criticise the Communist Party," said Ménard.
C.ET: this item is old, but things have been getting worse
since 2014 and 2016 when political and military power was given to the
president.
Guangdong: journalists criticise Party propaganda and
censorship
by Wang Zhicheng
Press freedom "raped". Head of provincial
propaganda under attack after forcing the publication of an editorial lauding
party achievements and removing newspaper editorial calling for the
implementation of the constitution. Open letter from journalists blocked
online; their microblog threatened. The public worry the newspaper will be
closed. The contradiction between Xi Jinping’s sermons, in praise of
constitution, and the reality of the provinces, governed in a Stalinist way.
One of the journalists, Su Yongtong, had prepared an
editorial that was to have opened the edition. The title was "The dream of
China, the dream of Constitutionalism", which stated that the Chinese
could hope to realize their dreams if the constitution is implemented. The
implementation of the constitution was one of the themes repeated by the new
leader Xi Jinping during and after the Party Congress.
But one day before the release, the provincial chief of
propaganda, Tuo Zhen (see photo), who is also vice president of Xinhua, forced
the newspaper to replace the editorial with another titled "Pursuing
dreams," which claims the Chinese people are closer in achieving their
dreams thanks to the painstaking efforts of the Party.
After the open letter was removed, many journalists
expressed their concerns through their personal microblog. But 15 of them
received threats and were obliged to remove their posts.
China bars human rights lawyer from US State Dept. program
While
Russia has traditionally relied on bots to push its agenda online, China’s
Communist party has raised a volunteer troll army of real people, most of them
young men, to go online and attack its enemies.
For years, China’s nationalist trolls were known as “50
cents”, or wumao, for the Rmb0.50 they were said to earn for each patriotic
post. But more recently a new breed of volunteer warrior has emerged, nicknamed
the “bring-your-own-rations wumao” for their willingness to work without pay.
Some like to call themselves “little pinks”, a name derived from the colour of
a popular online forum used by nationalists.
With nationalism on the rise, fuelled by China’s economic
ascent and perceptions of western decline, the propaganda drive has gone
global. “Tell the China story well and build China’s soft power,” President Xi
Jinping urged delegates at the party’s 19th congress in October.
State media have rapidly expanded their overseas operations,
while the government has pushed patriotic videos on western social media
platforms.
China's troll army also organises via private groups on
Facebook — which is blocked for the general public.
Chinese chatbot vanishes after spurning Communist Party
China's largest internet company has quietly deleted a
chatbot which told users it does not love the Communist Party.
C.ET: but this is
already in practice in the western industry. Already is partisan, not meaning
that it has been poisoned by other, meaning western is in itself a filthy
censor.
They do this to everybody, but also to people who does not
earn millions and thereby can throw a legal party.
C.ET: unfortunately, in that example
it is a maze that is quite hermetic. for example, for chinese people phrases
such as tianmen square story or even contemporary history such as the famines
under Mao, is completely under censorship, so how could people check what
chinese people feel, think or know about subjects that cannot be found on the
web used by the chinese. I think in these situations the web, which is our
principal (possible or immediate) tool now to research our subjects, does not
apply or is used to create a vacuum.
Of course, the electronic wall, also
censors an incredible amount of all western media too. chinese people cannot
have access to millions, billions of documents produced outside china.
China censorship drive splits leading academic publishers
Beijing’s challenge divides western university presses on
whether to resist or comply
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Having
silenced many of his domestic critics, President Xi Jinping is seeking to
export the Chinese Communist party’s heavily circumscribed view of intellectual
debate as part of his push to promote Chinese soft power.
had blocked access to at least 1,000 academic articles in
China that mention subjects deemed sensitive by Beijing, including Taiwan,
Tibet and Hong Kong.
China forbids Christmas decorations as Xi Jinping ramps up
war against religion and foreign culture
China’s war on words: Anything — be it a phrase or picture — that can be used
to insult Xi has been banned
Since claiming the eternal throne of an Emperor earlier this week, he’s clamped down — hard — on any hint of dissent.
Censorship has always been a way of life under China’s one party state.
But things have just ramped up to a whole new level.
Authoritarian rule is being established.
Book publishers, internet services — even scientific
journals — have been accused of censoring works out of fear of offending
powerful Chinese government groups.
“One by one, big Western companies like Apple, Daimler,
Marriot International and Yum Brands are being cowed by hordes of nationalistic
trolls for the crime of crossing patriotic red lines,” Ryan states.
7 things you can't talk about in China
In a directive reportedly distributed last month to local
party committees, China’s top propaganda officials issued new
restrictions banning discussion of seven topics deemed to be
“dangerous Western influences.”
The bans came amid a revival of hardliner attacks on
constitutionalism in China, and the shutdown of blogs belonging to several
popular, prominent writers. Last week, four blogs belonging to writer Murong
Xuecun, including an account with 14 million followers, were shuttered, sending
a chilling message to even mainstream critics of the government.
"Universal values"
"Freedom of speech"
In keeping with its Leninist heritage, the CCP sees control
of public discourse — particularly the media — as crucial to its hold on power.
"Civil society"
This banned topic seems particularly odd: what does the CCP
have to fear from “civil society,” meaning community groups and
non-governmental organizations?
"Civil rights"
No surprise here. Given that the
government regularly jails and relentlessly harrasses lawyers
"The historical errors of the Chinese Communist
Party"
For years, the CCP has tried to enforce selective historical
amnesia, teaching students about the suffering of China under Western colonial
powers in the 19th century, but skimming over many of the country’s worst 20th
century traumas, which were caused by CCP misrule: the Great Leap Forward,
which killed up to 45 million
Crony capitalism
Judicial independence
In China, some 99 percent of criminal cases brought to trial
end in conviction. As with the media, the CCP sees the courts as an arm of its
control.
In fact, high-ranking Party officials accused of crimes
often do not enter the civilian judicial system at all: they are dealt with by
internal disciplinary committees called "shanggui."
Li Rui: The old guard Communist who was able to criticise Xi
Jinping
He was hand-picked by Mao to become his personal secretary
in 1958.
But he was also imprisoned soon afterwards for criticising
Mao's Great Leap Forward, the failed modernisation programme now thought to
have killed between 30 and 60 million people through torture and starvation.
"We are not allowed to talk about past mistakes."
Li Rui said this in 2013, while reflecting on the
similarities between China's then-new leader Xi Jinping and the founding father
of Communist China, Mao Zedong.
Mr Xi, he warned, was echoing Mao's suppression of
individual thought, and was trying to build a similar cult of personality -
both things he had experienced at first hand.
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/%28China%29-For-the-Olympics,-prohibited-to-protest-or-speak-with-foreign-journalists-12623.htmlFor
the Olympics, prohibited to protest or speak with foreign journalists
In Shanghai, rigid new rules of "public order":
prison for those who violate them. Meanwhile, the Olympic Committee warns
Beijing to "separate sport and politics" after authorities in Lhasa
used the torch to express hopes for "final victory" over the Dalai
Lama. Water shortage in Beijing.
Although propaganda has for years been publicising the
"green Olympics", Beijing is facing a severe water emergency. […]
considered an "emergency" reserve, have been tapped. The water
is brought from Hebei through a huge channel dug for the Olympics, but the
province has been suffering from drought for years, and even lacks water for
farming. http://www.asianews.it/news-en/%28China%29-For-the-Olympics,-prohibited-to-protest-or-speak-with-foreign-journalists-12623.html
NB: to search in more
depth: Korea war, Vietnam war and the invasion of Tibet by the english forces
followed by its handing-over to China. Tibet, since there is no beauty that
strikes human's hearts effectively, still will be seen as a water reserve in
Asia that is vital for the whole of Southeast Asia (India, and all other
neighboring still independent countries).
Entertaining theories:
the love intertwined that have solidified, not ey yet (eye, tail, take, yes,
yes, yeti) liquidified, the imperialist wannabes.