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According to two articles written by the Post this summer, as a result of this critical story and a similar story which later appeared in a Chinese news magazine, Xu sent two letters to Chinese government officials urging them to ban or censor further reporting about genetic research in China...
...beam them down to the public. The objective is a double dose of control: the state will be the monopoly provider of satellite television broadcasting on the mainland, and foreign networks will have to pay to get their signals into China. In addition, authorities will be able to censor foreign satellite broadcasts with a simple push of a button. "It's one way to control foreign satellite broadcasts, but it also has all kinds of economic advantages," says Jeanette Chan, a Hong Kong-based broadcast attorney. Says a top executive at one leading foreign broadcast channel: "It's the ultimate...
...foreign broadcasters might play along, and possibly even self-censor their programs, to keep the Chinese monopoly happy. Far less clear is whether Beijing has the power to control the 1,200 municipal cable operators scattered across the country or to crack down on those who pirate encrypted signals. "I don't think it really changes the present situation for receiving unauthorized programming," says William Wade, an executive at Hong Kong-based satellite operator Asiasat. For one thing, the satellite programs now being received in homes are relatively uncensored and subscriptions for illegal cable service are dirt cheap?the government...
...person, Lucinda, who's now 48, doesn't censor herself. She's without guile, and she suffers from that sometimes because people don't know what to make of someone so forthright. They feel as if they want to protect her. But she is a real survivor, and the key to her success as an artist is that she has managed to survive without putting the armor...
...brainchild of an unlikely rebel: soft-spoken, 24-year-old computer consultant Hiroyuki Nishimura. Free to users, the site pulls in a mere $25,000 or so a month in advertising. "I wanted to provide space for people to discuss their interests," he says, adding that he doesn't censor a word. "Helpful or harmful, information is information," he says. "It's not up to us to question the impact or consequences." Nishimura may be forced to tighten up, however. In March, Nippon Life Insurance asked the court to order Channel 2 to delete entries that appeared to slander...