Difference between revisions of "Censorship in China"
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| − | Censorship is the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.<ref>https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/censorship</ref> | + | Censorship is the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.<ref>https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/censorship</ref> Censorship in China has been practiced throughout its history including the burning of Confucian texts by Emperor Qin in the third century BCE and the control of media during the Cultural Revolution. With the rise of the Internet, China has an army of bots and millions of human censors working around the clock to police daily activities.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2013/10/07/world/asia/china-internet-monitors/index.html</ref> This effort is commonly known around the world as the Great Firewall. |
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Revision as of 18:44, 15 March 2019
Censorship is the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.[1] Censorship in China has been practiced throughout its history including the burning of Confucian texts by Emperor Qin in the third century BCE and the control of media during the Cultural Revolution. With the rise of the Internet, China has an army of bots and millions of human censors working around the clock to police daily activities.[2] This effort is commonly known around the world as the Great Firewall.
