Technology censorship in China

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Censored technology companies in China is a concept that talks about how Chinese government censor the Chinese technology companies and restrict the content they publish on their platforms. Chinese government . Typically, censorship is defined as the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable or a threat to security.[1] As the rapid development of Internet technology, Chinese government has started to censor more massively and aggressively. The type of censorship varies from companies to companies but they are all done in order to prohibiting Chinese citizens from knowing and spreading information including but not limited to controversial events, reactionary speech, government actions, and violent and pornographic contents. For those companies that do not enter Chinese market or reject the censorship from Chinese government, they were blocked from Chinese Internet. The most notable blocking mechanism is known as “the Great Firewall”, with its name inspired by the historical architecture “the Great Wall”. In recent years, Chinese government is not satisfied with government censorship but requires individual technology companies to establish self-censorship mechanisms. [2]
  1. Oxford Dictionary [en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/censorship " Definition of Censorship in English by Oxford Dictionaries"]
  2. Information Control and Self-Censorship in the PRC and the Spread of SARS [1]