China's bloggers, filmmakers feel chill of internet crackdown
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Re: China's bloggers, filmmakers feel chill of internet crackdown
#2Reuters is blocked in China. China has been "closing" for 5 years now. According to "china watchers", this is expected to continue. Blame Xi.
Re: China's bloggers, filmmakers feel chill of internet crackdown
#3Newbie question but what is China's rationale for their internet censorship and firewall? What are they afraid of?
Re: China's bloggers, filmmakers feel chill of internet crackdown
#4Newbie question but what is China's rationale for their internet censorship and firewall? What are they afraid of?
You can't make socialism with too much freedom. People would look at homosexual stuff and wouldn't go to party meetings.
Re: China's bloggers, filmmakers feel chill of internet crackdown
#5Newbie question but what is China's rationale for their internet censorship and firewall? What are they afraid of?
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#6Newbie question but what is China's rationale for their internet censorship and firewall? What are they afraid of?
You can't make socialism with too much freedom. People would look at homosexual stuff and wouldn't go to party meetings.
Eh? Don't think socialism is to blame here. Sweden, as an example, is a very socialist country and also with a high degree of freedom to look at whatever you want (almost).
Re: China's bloggers, filmmakers feel chill of internet crackdown
#7Newbie question but what is China's rationale for their internet censorship and firewall? What are they afraid of?
They care about social harmony.
Don't want to make people upset.
That's the official version.
It's most probably about rejecting the influences from the West, preservation of Chinese culture. Recently there's also quite a huge war on influence of Korean culture.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can't make socialism with too much freedom. People would look at homosexual stuff and wouldn't go to party meetings.
Eh? Don't think socialism is to blame here. Sweden, as an example, is a very socialist country and also with a high degree of freedom to look at whatever you want (almost).
Sweden isn't socialist at all, it's a social democracy. Social democracies do not aim at making means of production a common good.
Re: China's bloggers, filmmakers feel chill of internet crackdown
#9Probably not Xi's problem but China will lag economically and creatively because of this restriction. It's just ceding the entertainment initiative to other creators, outside of China. Even if they ban all creative content from outside China, don't they know that a terabyte HDD can hold enough movies to last for a year, and be copied easily?
Re: China's bloggers, filmmakers feel chill of internet crackdown
#10how much of this is happening here but more subtly? Are we in danger of this from the ruling classes here in the US or are we being manipulated to well already? Its hard to say..