Stop the virtual presses
Officials try to fill a crack in the edifice of censorship
WHEN reading about themselves or their country’s affairs of state, China’s leaders do not like to be surprised or contradicted. They have little to worry about in conventional media, over which—for the most part—the Communist Party exerts tight control. But matters are different online, where journalists sometimes have had better luck in dodging the party’s censors. They may not for long.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “Stop the virtual presses”
China July 30th 2016
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