Word: censorship
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...Falun Gong, who protested China's crackdown on the religious sect. "Of course we knew she was with a Falun Gong paper," said a senior Administration official trying to explain the snafu. "But if we'd kept her out, the world would have screamed that we were guilty of censorship." So her cries came to dominate the news cycle. If that weren't awkward enough, when Bush and Hu stood on the south lawn, the loudspeaker mistakenly referred to China as the Republic of China, the formal name of Taiwan, which China considers a mere province. Later in the Oval...
...think it's arrogant for us to walk into a country where we are just beginning to operate and tell that country how to operate." ERIC SCHMIDT, Google CEO, responding to criticism over Google's willingness to comply with China's censorship laws for the recent launch of its local-language search engine...
...while they may corner the market on this refreshingly blatant disregard for property rights, the Chinese don’t have a monopoly on the subtler manipulations of artistic censorship...
...Most disturbingly, after the Sept. 11 attacks, radio broadcasters across the country engaged in a similarly proactive form of self-censorship, as Clear Channel compiled a list of “songs with questionable lyrics” that stations should not play. Only if they wanted to stay on the air though—no pressure...
...can’t effectively handle censorship in-house, maybe we should take a hint from the industrial sector and outsource to China. I hear the Ministry of Culture does great work