China Bans At Least 8 Western News Organizations in "Internet Black Friday"

By artappraiser on Mon, 06/10/2019 - 2:03pm |

New: In escalating internet crackdown, the Chinese govt appears to have just blocked its citizens from accessing the websites of at least eight Western news organizations, including @theintercept, @guardian, @washingtonpost, @nbcnews, @huffpost, & others: https://t.co/LB8yVOuNAU
— Ryan Gallagher (@rj_gallagher) June 7, 2019

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https://theintercept.com/2019/06/07/china-bans-the-intercept-and-other-news-sites-in-censorship-black-friday/

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The Guardian:

As of yesterday, China appears to have blocked the Guardian, one of few remaining foreign news sites that had been accessible in China without a vpn. https://t.co/bKhxTwMfnM
— Lily Kuo (@lilkuo) June 8, 2019

by artappraiser on Mon, 06/10/2019 - 2:07pm

Major protest in Hong Kong yesterday regarding new law allowing extradition to China. Most mainland Chinese don't know it happened:

Amazing photos showing scale of protests in Hong Kong over new extradition law that it's feared will allow China to target political opponents. Organisers estimate more than one million attended, making this one of the largest protests in HK history. https://t.co/e82uSNNVSr pic.twitter.com/QwOjcrFIFo
— Ryan Gallagher (@rj_gallagher) June 9, 2019

Time lapse video shared online on how hundreds of thousands marched to protest against an extradition bill #extraditionbill in Hong Kong pic.twitter.com/hOps5KF5VC
— Stella Lee (@StellaLeeHKnews) June 9, 2019

#HongKong/ has become a censored search term on Chinese #Weibo owing to the protests today, as #China will never allow the public to see images of large-scale protests. A search of "" only brings up posts from users with a blue V. These are either govt or media accounts.
— Kerry Allen (@kerrya11en) June 9, 2019

by artappraiser on Mon, 06/10/2019 - 2:12pm

South China Morning Post print edition cover:

by artappraiser on Tue, 06/11/2019 - 3:15am

It was all there–– the writing on the wall as it were–– with the Hongkong Booksellers Case in 2015 (ongoing, #GuiMinhai). This bill would "legalize" such kidnappings. @ayhcheung @JRTtager https://t.co/wR02lO9eu7
— Andréa Worden 吴玉婷 (@tingdc) June 10, 2019

by artappraiser on Tue, 06/11/2019 - 8:35pm

NYT - Hong Kong Braces for More Extradition Protests https://t.co/2ZrxW9EhHV
— Small Wars Journal (@smallwars) June 12, 2019

by artappraiser on Tue, 06/11/2019 - 9:00pm

Right now, the people of Hong Kong are protesting to prevent the HK govt. from reading its proposed extradition legislation as planned for today. For more context, here is on-the-ground footage with @OsloFF speaker @hoccgoomusic and @HRF Freedom Fellow @hkjohnsonyeung. #HongKong pic.twitter.com/wGOHhGkqQI
— HRF (@HRF) June 12, 2019

BREAKING: Protesters block access to government headquarters in Hong Kong in bid to disrupt debate on an extradition bill that would allow accused people to be sent to China for trial. https://t.co/kV8qOwreP8
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 12, 2019

HONGKONGERS ARE BACK!!!!!!

12th June at 12pm, and Harcourt road is filled with people again!

People are learning to be smarter and more flexible this time around, Mobilizing cars and different tactics to halt the traffic.

I am lost for words.#ExtraditionLaw #HongKong pic.twitter.com/RbJ0GeqDR8
— Denise Ho (HOCC) (@hoccgoomusic) June 12, 2019

by artappraiser on Wed, 06/12/2019 - 1:19am

2. Consensus of HK community seems much more unified, as Sunday’s Million Person March showed. In 2014 society was divided and there was genuine divergence of views, inc among those sympathetic to protesters (“Pocket it first”). Today even much of business community backs them.
— Antony Dapiran (@antd) June 12, 2019

by artappraiser on Wed, 06/12/2019 - 1:21am

There is usually never a line at the train ticketing machines. Judging from an overheard convo, it appears that people are reluctant to use their rechargeable Octopus cards for fear of leaving a paper trail of them having been present at the protest. pic.twitter.com/s1rsgSnCqL
— Mary Hui (@maryhui) June 12, 2019

by artappraiser on Wed, 06/12/2019 - 2:00am

Tyler Cowen @ Bloomberg:

"Hong Kong still ranks near or at the top of several indices of economic freedom. But that may be a sign these indices have lost touch with the nature of liberty." https://t.co/D9kcxc1g4O @tylercowen for @bopinion
— Adam Minter (@AdamMinter) June 13, 2019

by artappraiser on Wed, 06/12/2019 - 10:15pm

using dupe mistake to repost related from another thread:

For China’s Leading Investigative Reporter, Enough Is Enough

Liu Wanyong has quit journalism. “News is not like news anymore,” he says.

By Jane Perlez @ NYTimes.com, 10h ago

[....] His decision was a reluctant one, forced upon him, he says, by a tightening vise of censorship, as at least 100 “juicy” stories were killed at the Youth Daily in the past two years. He grew weary of the response “just wait” — code, he says, for “Don’t even dream of tackling this topic” — when he discussed story ideas with editors.

Sometimes, journalists were silenced, forbidden to write for months as punishment for writing articles that ran afoul of the censors. The journalists were then compelled to compile reports confessing their mistakes.

Instead of investigations, the party wanted “positive-energy stories” that would make people feel good as the economy sours, he said.

In the last year, accounts of the turmoil around financial scams that cost millions of people their savings were banned in the interests of “social stability.” The facts behind a huge explosion at a chemical factory were never explained [....]

by artappraiser on Mon, 06/10/2019 - 2:18pm

While most people in our 2018 global survey agreed that China plays a more important role in the world than it did 10 years ago, few preferred a world in which China was the leading power. https://t.co/DTGv8Bttwk pic.twitter.com/8Jok4Qrzxr
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) June 11, 2019

by artappraiser on Tue, 06/11/2019 - 3:01am

China Bans At Least 8 Western News Organizations in "Internet Black Friday"

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