Fluctuations.
China's censors censor press censorship report
China’s "Ministry of Truth" has been busy again today, ordering websites inside the Great Firewall to delete all mention of its lowly position, fifth bottom, on the latest Press Freedom Index report from Reporters Without Borders. The directive from the State Council Information Office on Tuesday, obtained by China Digital …
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Thursday 13th February 2014 17:23 GMT Vociferous
Re: Sir
> I doubt Beijing is worried about what foreign press says about them
Oh but they are. You'll also find Chinese 50-centers on big English-language fora like Reddit, doing damage control whenever there's negative publicity.
It's pretty much universally so that oppressive dictatorships are very thin-skinned.
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Thursday 13th February 2014 17:39 GMT Anonymous Coward
I wasn't under the impression that there is any independent media in NK either, though - or really any independent much of anything. I mean, even if it's not hard journalism, what are they going to do - have Good Housekeeping with the top 10 holiday tree bark recipes? Road & Track's oxcart of the year? PC Magazine reporting on rumors that someone in the country has a PC? :P
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Thursday 13th February 2014 13:08 GMT John Savard
As long as China censors the Internet, it should not be permitted to export any computer-related products to the rest of the world. The sybolism of this trade sanction would be fitting, and it would impact their ability to subsidize their electronics sector - relevant to military uses - from consumer purchases.
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Thursday 13th February 2014 18:10 GMT NumptyScrub
quote: "Also the Chinese economy, which presumably the Chinese government would be very highly motivated to avoid."
Given that China is very carefully pushing loads of cash back at us by purchasing western (e.g. US) government bonds and the like, they are actually propping up all the fuckwits over here that are making the idiot decisions in the first place. Yes, if they just kept the money and let the local currency rapidly appreciate, they'd find themselves having economic issues as western companies stopped getting stuff manufactured there, but the west would be the one that properly nosedived into the cesspit (economically speaking).
IMO of course, but of the 2 concomitant processes, I believe that the US (and Europe) would come out far, far worse off than China for it. They (China) are the ones covering these comical national debts we all have over here, using the money we give them to make stuff for us... :(
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Friday 14th February 2014 01:16 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: How ironic.....
I might be going out on a limb here, but it's possible - just *possible* - that a private employer using a web filter is different from, say, a government jailing or executing reporters.
I mean, it's just little details - private company vs. government, waiting until you get home vs. being hauled up against a wall and shot by a firing squad... But sometimes it's the little things that really matter, don't you think?
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