CCP censorship

Insights 02/23/22, 14:15

The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China (FCCC) expressed their dismay on Monday, Feb. 21, saying the media environment for foreign journalists during the Winter Olympics Games did not match expectations. The FCCC statted, "The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China is dismayed that the conditions for independent reporting in China continue to ...

China 01/04/22, 14:58

Citizen News, an online news outlet based in Hong Kong, will stop operations following the Chinese Communist Party-backed administration’s crackdown on dissent, deteriorating press freedom in the territory. Citizen News announced its decision of termination on Facebook on Sunday, Jan. 2, several days after police raided and arrested some people for ...

Washington 12/31/21, 06:36

Several senior Republican Party leaders have protested since six current and former employees of Stand News, one of the last pro-democracy online newspapers in Hong Kong, were arrested by the CCP on Dec. 29, 2021. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Twitter on Wednesday that he is "very concerned about ...

Trending 12/29/21, 14:26

Hundreds of Hong Kong national security police officers raided the offices of online pro-democracy news outlet Stand News, arresting six people, early on Wednesday, Dec. 29th. According to the police, the journalists homes were also searched. The reason behind was "conspiracy to publish seditious publications." , including deputy editor Ronson Chan, ...

China 12/23/21, 20:53

According to VOA, the public in China have noticed that, in 2021, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has increased its control of free speech to unprecedented levels. Analysts assess that there is no indication that the CCP will relax its suppression of human rights in the near future. In 2021, the ...

China 12/16/21, 23:08

During 2021, the Chinese Communist regime's internet watchdog shut down or suspended more than 20,000 influential social network accounts. Some of them for alleged "misuse" and many others for not promoting "fundamental socialist" values. The main people affected by the censorship measures are journalists and individuals who, due to the large ...

China 10/01/21, 17:23

The firm LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft, censored the profile of American journalist Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian in China, inviting her to "update" her content to fit the requirements of the communist regime. It also offered "collaboration" for her profile to be approved by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). According to what the journalist ...

Tech 07/15/21, 18:36

TikTok users denounced the social network for banning a video of people protesting against Cuba's communist government. The Chinese communist regime-controlled video sharing service allegedly suspended user Celine Fernandez for several days. Her only crime was sharing footage of political unrest in Cuba. "Tiktok suspended me from posting for two days …[and] ...

China 06/23/21, 17:15

The board of directors of Apple Daily confirmed the rumors that shook the press during the last hours stating that on June 24, both the print edition and the digital version of the newspaper will cease to be published. The decision came because of intense pressure exerted by the Chinese ...

Europe 03/11/21, 18:02

A children's book by German authors claimed that the CCP Virus came from China, as is known worldwide, but in the face of strong pressure from Chinese Communist Party (CCP) diplomats and local Chinese, the publisher decided to remove it completely and terminate its marketing. The book that was published during ...

China 03/11/21, 14:01

The U.S. independent film "Nomadland," topped the awards at the 26th annual Critics Choice Awards on March 7 and won a Golden Globe paving the way for the 2021 Oscars in its category. But in China, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recently censored all web publicity about the hit film, ...

U.S. 02/25/21, 08:43

During the House Committee hearing on Fanning the Flames: Disinformation and Extremism in the Media, Rep. Bill Johnson (R-Ohio) warned that the Democrats' censorship of dissident media is "eerily similar" to that of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). "Just two weeks ago, China's National Broadcasting Administration banned BBC World News from ...