Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Chinese Censorship





With all the talk of 'fake news' and Russian 'collusion' in the last election, how is any American supposed to know who is telling the truth?  This is not a problem in China, where misinformation is tightly controlled by the government, and the telling of 'falsehoods' is punishable by jail time or worse.

The Chinese government demonstrated just how much power it has over the opinions of its billion-strong population by deciding to ban use of a single letter. That letter is 'N' and its censorship followed moves by the Chinese Communist Party to remove the ten year limit on a presidency from the country's Constitution.




The blocking of the letter 'N' might seem like a bizarre move by the Chinese authorities, but it is part of a struggle to restrict clever bloggers from getting around their country's censorship.  Winnie the Pooh also joins the list of images blocked on social media.



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