Don't Facebook and Twitter already do this? Oddly similar, No?
China has proposed banning all news organisations that are not directly funded by the Communist Party.
The new law, drafted by the National Development and Reform Commission, would ban any private investment in 'news gathering, editing, and broadcasting'.
It marks the ruling CCP's latest crackdown on private enterprise, after the country's booming tech sector and billionaire owners were hammered earlier this year.
sounds like xi got this idea from jack dorsey.
ReplyDeleteremind anyone of 1930s ger..many?
ReplyDelete...and 1930's USSR under Stalin.
ReplyDeletePoliticians and big business have a lot to answer for. They promised that by bringing China into the international community and modernisation they would become democratic or at the least less authoritian. The exact opposite has happened and the only difference is that they now have the technological skills to be a real threat. Time to pull out of China over the next decade. The West also needs to develop a new Internet that excludes states such as Russia and China.
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