China Cracks Down on Google, Wall Street Journal
Posted in: Uncategorized
As China approaches the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, the Communist Party is taking no chances with dissent, online or off.
Google services including search, Gmail and Translate have been disrupted since at least late last week, according to Greatfire.org, a site that tracks internet access. Police detained dozens of people and warned foreign journalists against writing stories about the June 4, 1989, crackdown, and The Wall Street Journal’s website was blocked.
The Tiananmen anniversary poses the biggest challenge yet to efforts by President Xi Jinping to police dissent more actively in a nation with 618 million web users. Tighter controls reflect a strategic shift toward using the internet to shape public opinion and curtail unrest while also championing the emergence of a homegrown technology industry led by Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group Holding.
Post a Comment