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China Closes More Than 13,000 Websites in Past Three Years (reuters.com)
China has closed more than 13,000 websites since the beginning of 2015 for breaking the law or other rules and the vast majority of people support government efforts to clean up cyberspace, state news agency Xinhua reports. From the report: The government has stepped up already tight controls over the internet since President Xi Jinping took power five years ago, in what critics say is an effort to restrict freedom of speech and prevent criticism of the ruling Communist Party. The government says all countries regulate the internet, and its rules are aimed at ensuring national security and social stability and preventing the spread of pornography and violent content. A report to the on-going session of the standing committee of China's largely rubber stamp parliament said the authorities had targeted pornography and violence in their sweeps of websites, blogs and social media accounts, Xinhua said.
Communism does not like the mind of their workers been polluted by decadent outside influences.
Entertainment, fiction, science fiction, art, culture all takes time away from the teachings of Communism.
It weakens the society and results in people escaping inwards after work. Less of a communist community results as more people withdraw into their own self centred and selfish pastimes after work.
Another reason why Communism hates and censors everything creative or fun is to keep CIA/MI6 backed NGO's, ideas, hobbies, lifestyles and artists out of China.
They spread lifestyles what weaken workers and disrupt the communist way of life with ideas of voting, creativity, freedom, democracy and the rule of law.
Imagine not going to work in China in a mil uniform and having to work for the mil all day for a low wage? Starting your own company and not having to ask the mil/party if you can sell, export, attend a conference, go to another nation to get a real education? Not having the Communist party have a say over housing, health care, your pension, mmil service, work and education?
Communist ideology does not like that kind of disruption to its workers. So it censors anything that can upset and disrupt its hold on power.
Censorship stops the CIA/MI6 from trying a color revolution in China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
In the USA you can publish fiction, non fiction, science fiction, art and music. Books, art, movies, comments, reviews in the USA can contain any number of decadent lifestyles.
People can buy your books, art, music, review and comment on your past work.
In the USA you are free to buy and then read a book form Japan, South Korea. No questions later in the USA.
People in the USA have freedom of speech and freedom after speech.
No neighborhood committees reporting book reading habits to a Communist party.
In the USA you are free to talk about an author, to an author, comment on their books, write your own book, sell a book, import a book. No totalitarian communist party to stop your freedom in the USA.
Communist China has absolute control over their nations internet, VPN use, media and publications.
The USA has and protects freedom.
Communism in China has control.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
China isn't communist. I'm in China right now, it's a monument to consumerism. Capitalism is huge here, people value material possessions and bling more than anything. "Imported" brands (made in China) are the most desirable.
China is just authoritarian. Not socialist, definitely not that, and not communist in any meaningful way. It's no more communist than the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is democratic.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Except it doesn't work. China has a history of forcing out foreign companies as soon as a domestic version is available, no matter how much the foreign company bends over backwards to comply with Chinese censorship laws.