Daily Archives: January 10, 2014

Unnecessary Censorship in League of Legends Part 2
Thank you all for your support in Part 1. You guys asked for more, so here it is! More sailor-talkin champions that #39;s going to need more than Orbits gum to c...

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Unnecessary Censorship - Santa Claus is Coming to Town - Christmas
Unnecessary Censorship - Santa Claus is Coming to Town.

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@midnight w/ Chris Hardwick (@Nerdist): Cat Card Censorship
Chris points out some censorship on Etsy cat cards and earns himself a couple of points.

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BEIJING After a decade as a reporter and producer for China Central Television, Wang Qinglei grew tired of the increasingly stifling environment for this countrys journalists, and took to social media to say so.

Fired as a result, Wang then penned an extraordinary farewell letter. He lamented that journalists at the state broadcaster had been slowly turned from watchdogs into manipulated clowns. While CCTV has rapidly expanded, opening 70 bureaus around the globe, its domestic channel had gone from being respected to being mocked, Wang said.

Having a brand new building and new equipment, having nationwide and worldwide correspondent posts, does not mean we have everything, he wrote. What we have slowly lost is credibility and influence.

In the past decade, Chinas Communist government has gradually tightened the screws on the media. Now, under President Xi Jinping, the campaign to control journalists has intensified sharply. While there has been a lot of focus in U.S. media on the difficulties of foreign correspondents in getting their visas renewed, local journalists risk getting fired and even jailed for their work.

Journalists complain that more of their stories are being censored than in the past, while new restrictions have been imposed in recent months requiring them to seek permission before meeting foreign reporters and business people.

In the final quarter of 2013, reporters across China were forced to attend ideological training meant to impart the Marxist view of journalism and to pass a multiple-choice examination on their knowledge of the Communist Partys myriad slogans.

At the same time, the main Chinese journalism schools have been told that a provincial propaganda official will be placed in a leading management role at the institutions, professors said, curtailing whatever academic freedom they now enjoy under university and Education Ministry control.

After so many years of reform and opening up, they still use methods from the 18th century; it is ridiculous, complained one professor, who requested anonymity to avoid problems with the authorities. Most of the academics in different schools dont want to obey such a decision.

The government, experts say, is deeply alarmed about the growing impact of social media and the Internet, and the way that critical stories, whether written by local reporters or foreign journalists, can spread around the country in an instant. At the same time, a rising tide of protests at home, and the experience of the Arab Spring abroad, have the government determined to do whatever it takes to ensure its own survival.

The latest crackdown may also reflect Xis authoritarian style, which has become more evident as he has consolidated power since taking control of the party more than a year ago, experts say. He is tightening control of the media even as he is undertaking a series of reforms meant to stimulate the economy, clean up the party and address some areas of popular discontent.

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Chinese journalists face tighter censorship, Marxist re-training

Russian Internet censorship was broadened this week toinclude animal protection as two "doghunter" websites were banned inSt. Petersburg.

Russia has athriving underground community ofvigilantes who kill off arguably dangerous stray dogs inareas where animal control measures are ineffective. Anestimated 1 million strays roam thestreets nationally andpeople have been wounded andeven killed inattacks byhungry dogs.

Thecourt ban was imposed atthe request ofcity prosecutors, who said ontheir website that thesites violate Russian laws oninformation, theanimal world andprotection ofminors.

Themove may spell achange inRussia's approach todog-hunters, none ofwhom have so far been found guilty ofanimal abuse. Thecountry's animal rights legislation only criminalizes animal abuse committed out ofhooliganism, forprofit or infront ofminors.

Doghunters claim tobe doing thegovernment's job inprotecting thepublic. Some 16,600 people were attacked inMoscow alone bystray animals in2008, thelast year forwhich statistics are available, theFederal Consumer Protection Service said.

Russia also censors online "extremist" content, pirated films andwebsites deemed topromote suicide, illegal drugs andchild pornography.

Thelist oftopics subjected toonline censorship is increasing, with promotion ofunauthorized rallies added inlate December.

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