Chinese Censorship Response to Coronavirus

[Vince Koloski]

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-early-days-of-chinas-coronavirus-coverup/?bxid=5e8f0d83fbd2970daa1327c3&cndid=60574942&esrc=AUTO_PRINT&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_050220&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_term=list1_p1Interesting article from Wired on Chinese Gov. response to information on the virus as it developed in China.

Comes from a reporter inside China.

An excerpt: 

On March 10, an article about another medical whistleblower in Wuhan—another potential Li—was published and then swiftly wiped off the internet, which began yet another vast cat-and-mouse game between censors and Chinese social media users. The story, published by People, profiled a doctor, who, as she put it, had “handed out the whistle” by alerting other physicians about the emergence of a SARS-like virus in late December. The article reported that she had been scolded by hospital management for not keeping the information a secret.

Soon after it was deleted, Chinese social media users started to recreate the article in every way imaginable: They translated it into over 10 languages; transcribed the piece in Morse code; wrote it out in ancient Chinese script; incorporated its content into a scannable QR code; and even rewrote it in Klingon—all in an effort to evade the censorship machine. All of these efforts were eradicated from the internet.

It always drives me crazy when I read articles referencing the lack of Chinese creativity. Rewrote it in Klingon...

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-early-days-of-chinas-coronavirus-coverup/?bxid=5e8f0d83fbd2970daa1327c3&cndid=60574942&esrc=AUTO_PRINT&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_050220&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_term=list1_p1

Vince

[jack saunders]

Vince — On Chinese internet censorship, Matt Taibbi takes trenchant issue with liberal American public intellectuals now shaping a new meme ... to wit:  The successful Chinese containment of coronavirus, compared with the botched U.S. job, shows we need internet controls more like, well, China’s. https://taibbi.substack.com/p/temporary-coronavirus-censorship?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxOTgwMTc0LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0MTg3NjgsIl8iOiJBWjdTcCIsImlhdCI6MTU4ODQ3NjgxNywiZXhwIjoxNTg4NDgwNDE3LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTA0MiIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.Th65iMeqpQIxjs_bBzruAqc4A6ZezJ2Ac2a9bnU4o30

On May 2, 2020, at 5:55 PM, Vince Koloski <vkst...@gmail.com> wrote:



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