It seems that internet censorship only continues to expand in China.
This latest censorship is over the accusations that there was a cover up after the AIDS rights group, Aizhixing Research Foundation, published an open letter from a former health official about restrictions over a health scandal.
So in China, anything critical is at risk to face serious penalties. Here is a former senior level official's own words being struck from the record. Does China really think that by creating a scandal and removing content, that it will maintain it's power and keep the country unified?
The nature of the internet, is that that Chinese site of an AIDS rights group, is now on the radar of the entire world. This kind of news doesn't register as a surprise anymore, after all Tienanmen Square searches yield nothing of the massacre, Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese human rights activist, Liu Xiaobo doesn't appear in Chinese search results, and right after the uprisings started in the Middle East Egypt and Tahrir Square disappeared.
Is the internet serving the Chinese population as a catalyst for speech rights? I think so but it will take many more jailed bloggers, proxy servers, and people unafraid to speak their minds for real change to happen.
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To read it in full please follow the link to the CPJ website.
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