China Bans Internet News

[Atreus21]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...internet-news-reporting-as-crackdown-tightens

China’s top internet regulator ordered major online companies including Sina Corp. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. to stop original news reporting, the latest effort by the government to tighten its grip over the country’s web and information industries.

The Cyberspace Administration of China imposed the ban on several major news portals, including Sohu.com Inc. and NetEase Inc., Chinese media reported in identically worded articles citing an unidentified official from the agency’s Beijing office. The companies have “seriously violated” internet regulations by carrying plenty of news content obtained through original reporting, causing “huge negative effects,” according to a report that appeared in The Paper on Sunday.

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The sweeping ban gives authorities near-absolute control over online news and political discourse, in keeping with a broader crackdown on information increasingly distributed over the web and mobile devices. President Xi Jinping has stressed that Chinese media must serve the interests of the ruling Communist Party.

How much we take for granted. It's good to be a westerner, and particularly an American.

Communist jackasses. If free media threatens you then your position is precarious indeed.

 

[Sonikku]

Well at least he's honest. The job of Chinese media is to benefit his political party, not the people.

 

[piasabird]

Cant let the Chinese know what the rest of the world thinks about their country. Sounds just like the American Media.

 

[agent00f]

The old soviet block and the west particular the US simply use differing methods to achieve more or less the same goal. In the former the primary strategy is ignoring inconvenient truths, so it used to be that the state papers where mostly correct in what they selectively reported on, so nobody can even accuse them of lying per se even though most are aware they're not getting the whole picture. Whereas in the US the opposing strategy is to report so much garbage that citizens overall are deadlocked over important issues.