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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday July 27 2016, @04:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the they-were-making-such-good-progress dept.

Here's an article that's guaranteed to get Soylent News blocked by the Great Firewall of China, assuming hasn't already happened. The New York Times reports:

China has ordered several of the country's most popular internet portals to halt much of their original news reporting, in a move that could confine an even larger share of the journalism in the country to Communist-controlled mouthpieces ahead of an important party meeting next year.

The profit-driven portals, several of which are listed on United States stock exchanges, have in recent years expanded their investigative teams to increase readership among China's more than 600 million internet users by scooping the staid state-owned news media on stories about subjects including industrial pollution, tainted milk powder and even police brutality.

But on Monday, several news organizations reported that the Beijing office of China's internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, ordered the websites of a number of the companies, including Sina, Sohu, NetEase and Phoenix, to shut down or "clean up" several of their most popular online news features.

It looks like China is moving back to a model not unlike what once existed in the Soviet Union, where "there was no izvestiya in Pravda, and no pravda in Izvestiya."


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @01:18AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @01:18AM (#380972)

    That site is clearly not very acurate. As it's blocked since at least yesterday in my part of China.

    Sometimes it's blocked and other times it isn't. So the site isn't blocked like say The New York Times is, but probably on a keyword basis or some other kind of temporary block.

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  • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Thursday July 28 2016, @02:13AM

    by JNCF (4317) on Thursday July 28 2016, @02:13AM (#380999) Journal

    That's very interesting, thank you for the information! Does a temporary block affect all internet traffic that triggers the filter, or are some sites not affected? If all sites are affected, I can see why blockedinchina.net would still classify SoylentNews as not blocked. Otherwise they may need a better system.