This seems like a huge deal. How does this not have 100's of upvotes on HN? Am I missing something?
It's only been up an hour. And to most Americans (the largest portion of HN's readership), this seems like par for the course for China.
Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China
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#12Well, ever since the change of government China has been closing back on itself again and censorship has been stronger and stronger. It's not surprising and tells me I made the right choice to leave the country in 2013...
Are you a Chinese national?
Just wondering what your thoughts on the reasons for this move are.
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#13Sounds like the normal thing in China. Make something illegal, don't enforce it, if someone's saying something you don't like then enforce it specifically against them, keeps everyone else in line.
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#14This is pure insanity: "Quartz contacted the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology from Hong Kong asking for further clarification on how the rules would work, but the ministry said it could only reply to faxed questions that came from a reporter with a mainland press card."
They are cutting off the foreign news outlets. If you aren't a mainland Chinese journalist with a press card of that nature they no longer have any interest in your opinion.
Why bother replying to people you don't care about?
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#15The govt is just aiming to completely rewrite history. Tiananmen square? Never happened!
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#16I think that China's openness (or lack of) in internet affairs is strongly correlated with the health of their economy. It could be a nice proxy.
Re: Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China
#17Well, ever since the change of government China has been closing back on itself again and censorship has been stronger and stronger. It's not surprising and tells me I made the right choice to leave the country in 2013...
Are you a Chinese national? Just wondering what your thoughts on the reasons for this move are.
I was told that the current president is a real traditionalist and that he "secretly / openly" detest the capitalism.
Re: Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China
#18Well, ever since the change of government China has been closing back on itself again and censorship has been stronger and stronger. It's not surprising and tells me I made the right choice to leave the country in 2013...
Are you a Chinese national? Just wondering what your thoughts on the reasons for this move are.
It seems that the wealthiest Chinese are quickly leaving China for the US. I believe that this will have negative impacts on their long term growth.
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#19And so it starts. Economic collapse will prompt the dictatorship in China to
- Increase anti-foreign rhetorics in media. Don't like it, Microsoft? tough
- Ban Foreign services. Don't like it, Uber? tough
- Devalue Yuan by 50%. Don't like it, Apple? tough
- Nationalize foreign assets. Don't like it, Ford? tough
Re: Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China
#20please note this also includes online gaming. Blizzard, Valve and Steam would be in some trouble