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Little Tich

(6,171 posts)
Sat Apr 11, 2015, 11:23 PM Apr 2015

China orders media giant Sina to 'improve censorship'

Source: Yahoo! News / AFP

Beijing (AFP) - China's government has threatened to shut down Sina, one of the country's most popular news websites unless it "improves censorship", state media reported, in a rare public glimpse into controls over the press.

The online portal "distorted news facts, violated morality and engaged in media hype", the official Xinhua news agency on Saturday cited the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) as saying.

The CAC will "seriously" punish Sina, with possible measures including "a complete shut down of its Internet news services", Xinhua added.

CAC officials added that "censorship of user accounts has been poor", Xinhua said, in a likely reference to Sina Weibo, a service similar to Twitter which has hundreds of millions of registered users in China.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/china-orders-media-giant-sina-improve-censorship-020039034.html

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Archae

(46,354 posts)
1. "distorted news facts, violated morality and engaged in media hype",
Sat Apr 11, 2015, 11:48 PM
Apr 2015

You sure that wasn't referring to Faux "news?"

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
3. I lived in China for an academic year and taught business
Sun Apr 12, 2015, 02:52 AM
Apr 2015

The censorship was bad and I had to use a VPN to conduct my doctoral work and use Facebook. What they are fed, even on college campuses is crap. When I lived there the dorm the foreigners lived in was near the front gate of the university and there was a large electronic board that always had messages on it. One day I finally asked one of my students what it said and then immediately regretted doing so.

Right now I have three Chinese students in my class here in Korea and have been tempted to ask them what they think of life here compared to back home. I don't think they knew each other before coming here, but have been here a few years. The first few weeks they all stuck together at the same table. I was planning to move everyone around anyway so I separated the three of them to try to get them to talk to other students. We have quite a few Chinese students at my university, but my first year there I didn't have any in my classes. The only good thing is they don't count in the grade curve so I can go easy on them.

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