The way
the Chinese government censors and deletes politically - sensitive terms online has been revealed for the first time.
Not exact matches
Google had been allowed to enter the
Chinese market in 2006 with an agreement with the
Chinese government to
censor certain verboten search topics.
The company's been given the official blessing by the
Chinese government because it willingly self -
censors content that Beijing deems sensitive.
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (R for profanity) Bamboo Curtain biopic about Beijing contemporary artist / political activist Ai Weiwei, a controversial democracy and human rights advocate who has been
censored for publicly criticizing the
Chinese government.
According to Eric Schmidt's, the chief executive, statement, the company would become the leader of the
Chinese internet market despite the challenges, such as censorship issues and fierce competition from the largest home - grown rival called Baidu.com.What is more, Google's Vice President and «Chief Internet Evangelist», Vint Cerf, supported the company's decision to expand its activities in China, although it should have complied with the
Chinese government's demands to
censor information.
The
Chinese characters on my username and profile picture are
censored by the
Chinese government:
Unfortunately, the books Trajectory submits to the
Chinese book market has to be approved by
government censors.
After being jailed by the
Chinese government in 2011, and his work
censored in the country, the dissident artist Ai Weiwei received his passport back this week.
The
Chinese government have since then made the approval process easier, saying that they will now approve games in 20 days, but Microsoft still need to fully translate and localise each game into Simplified
Chinese and
censor and remove any violence or sex gameplay that doesn't fit the cultural rules set out by the
government.
Soeda is spot on here, the PlayStation has launched in a market where Mobile and PC is king, where the
government censors cause popular overseas games to be banned and where Mobile companies are launching rival products with games that appeal to
Chinese gamers tastes.
The situation isn't helped by the fact that the
government censors any game that is deemed to go against China or
Chinese law.
Ji's own political sympathies have attracted the attention of
Chinese authorities, leading
government censors to cover portions of his paintings on view during the 10th Shanghai Biennale in 2014.
Turning to the internet to express his political views, he was
censored by the
Chinese government and arrested in 2011.
The
Chinese government, insofar as they want to block things that don't self -
censor, pretty well has to block it, since it's * exactly * the kind of service that would call unwanted attention to undesirable reports on unhappy developments in China, in real time.
Google basically said it would no longer
censor results for
Chinese users as required by the
Chinese government, and if the
government didn't like it, they would leave.
In the past we've mused over whether Facebook could comply with
censors in China — it is among a number of Western services blocked by the
Chinese government; any unblocking would be contingent upon it agreeing to
censor content, the same issue would apply if it acquired a firm there — or whether the culture of Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter which has beaten out domestic Facebook clones, means there is little demand for a Facebook - like user experience — but Tencent's success with WeChat represents an even greater question mark: if all these questions were answered, is there even room for Facebook?
China
censors content for a variety of reasons, often because it's critical of the
Chinese government or contrary to Communist Party policy.
Demeester noted that if the
Chinese government decides to
censor bitcoin transactions, hashrate will decline and cause slower transactions.