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mendax writes:

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."

Original Submission

1. "mendax" - https://soylentnews.org/~mendax/
2. "Great Firewall of China" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall
3. "reports" - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/world/asia/china-media-sina-sohu-netease-phoenix.html?module=WatchingPortal%AEion=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=1&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/world/asia/china-media-sina-sohu-netease-phoenix.html&eventName=Watching-article-click
4. "Pravda" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda
5. "Izvestiya" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izvestia
6. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=14955

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