China adds Washington Post, Guardian to 'Great Firewall' blacklist

[inanna]

Source: Washington Post

June 8 at 10:54 PM

BEIJING — Websites of The Washington Post and the Guardian appear to now be blocked in China as the country’s government further tightens its so-called “Great Firewall” censorship apparatus as it navigates a politically sensitive period.

Until this weekend, The Post and the Guardian were among the last few major English-language outlets that were still regularly accessible from mainland China without the use of virtual private networking software, according to the censorship tracker Greatfire.org.

Chinese Internet authorities have gone into overdrive in recent weeks ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre on June 4, 1989, prohibiting users on the popular WeChat social media service to post keywords or pictures related to the event.

All but the most oblique references to the incident were immediately scrubbed, and, during the days around the anniversary, users complained about not even being able to access the function to change their avatars.


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[SunSeeker]

1. Trump wishes he could do that. nt

[KY_EnviroGuy]

2. I'll bet his people had a hand in it.

Under the table trade negotiation item I'm guessing. Both liberal-leaning papers that frequently call out Trump's and China's bullshit.

Both have carefully documented Trump's lies. The Guardian started during the presidential campaign and helped keep me sane.

KY.........

[SunSeeker]

3. Wouldn't surprise me. nt

[secondwind]

4. Coming soon to the United States,

voting machines made in China. Ivanka Trump was given the license a few months ago.

Everything from furniture to baby bottles to voting machines. EVERYTHING

[yaesu]

5. and yet we keep buying the chinese crap, shameful, nt

[Maxheader]

6. Lets not let the 1%ers do that to americu...

Because I can guarantee you, they would if they could..
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Police state..get your news at info wars and faux news...only...

[ManiacJoe]

7. I am surprised they waited this long....

[dalton99a]

8. Wikipedia has been blocked across all language versions.

[Kid Berwyn]

9. Xi doesn't want China to know who married the billionaires.

And how they’re largely related to Xi.

From The New Yorker:

Excerpt...

For journalists working in China, there is no more sensitive subject than the wealth of the top leadership; it poses more potential problems than anything one could write about Tibet or Taiwan or human rights. Back in 2013, when I was the Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, we all knew, or thought we knew, that the families of Politburo members had gotten fabulously rich as the Chinese economy prospered. But we couldn’t prove it, and we couldn’t expect the heavily censored Chinese press to report it. So we were all chasing the money. In 2012, the New York Times published a major exposé on the family of outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao, for which the reporter David Barboza won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. A few months earlier, a team of Bloomberg reporters, led by Michael Forsythe, had broken another big story, about the family of Xi Jinping, who was then in line to become China’s President.

The Chinese government responded by blocking all new journalist-visa applications from the Times and Bloomberg. Existing staff members could have their visas renewed (it makes bad headlines to expel reporters), but no new hires would be allowed to reside in the country. This is the reason that readers so often see Hong Kong and Taiwan datelines on stories about China. The ongoing ban on new visas for Times and Bloomberg journalists has become a diplomatic issue, raised by both President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joseph Biden during recent visits to Beijing.

Source...

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-not-to-get-kicked-out-of-china

There’s a reason the rich keep getting richer.