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The campaign involves not just promoting pro-Beijing information, but discouraging negative reports. Censorship extends into social media, and is strengthened by Chinese platforms' suppression of content that authorities deem negative. For example, some U.S. citizens have recently had messages or entire accounts censored on the popular Chinese messaging app WeChat, owned by the firm Tencent.
"It's quite shocking to me that China's Great Firewall is coming to the U.S. in digital form," says George Shen, a technology consultant from Newton, Mass., who had his WeChat accounts banned last month. "It's a very stealthy, sophisticated censorship. ... They are filtering out your messages without even telling you," he says.
Bankrolled with billions of dollars of government funds, the strategy goes beyond establishing Chinese media entities abroad, to leasing or purchasing foreign news outlets and hiring foreign reporters. This tactic, known as "borrowing a boat to go out on the ocean" – or buying a boat, as the case may be – is aimed at offering a cloak of credibility.
Even as China expands its channels to American audiences, it is increasing restrictions on U.S. media in China. Last month, Chinese authorities blocked several more U.S. media outlets from the internet in China, including the websites of The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and NBC News.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Monday July 08 2019, @07:17PM (5 children)
Posting this again, it's old but clearly more people need to read it: https://medium.com/@jbonesy/hang-on-whats-going-on-with-china-big-tech-61bd99716f68
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Monday July 08 2019, @07:38PM (1 child)
Yeah, imagine the outrage if the US just constantly exported state propaganda to every corner of the world for a century. [cqpress.com]
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday July 09 2019, @03:39PM
Just imagine how exciting a world we would have, if someone else doing an action to a lesser degree was enough to declare something to be legal and moral?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 08 2019, @11:00PM
Did you hear that? It's the sound of millions of Jews thinking, "finally, somebody else is going to take some heat on that one".
(Score: 3, Interesting) by shortscreen on Tuesday July 09 2019, @06:07AM (1 child)
Sorry but that article is a long and rambling nothing-burger. Maybe China has its own share of influence over payment processors, what is significant about this? All that stuff about website TOS and games being censored is hardly new or in need of a boogieman to explain it.
(Score: 1) by Arik on Tuesday July 09 2019, @12:23PM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?