China's Tightening Grasp on Social Media Offers a Potent Tool of Repression for President-for-Life Xi Jinping, PEN America Report Warns
"Offering a detailed analysis of digital rights today and a chilling
preview of their future in China, PEN America announced the release of Forbidden Feeds: Government Controls on Social Media in China.
From the leading US free expression organization, the 90+-page
original research report demonstrates how the government’s grip on
social media constricts free expression in China, and how the scope and
severity of censorship has expanded under President Xi Jinping. With an
increasing array of technological, legal, and ideological tools at the
government’s disposal, Beijing is ever more able and willing to
systematically erase expressions of dissent and calls for social change,
silencing internet users who dare cross ever-shifting red lines, and
shutting off channels of circumvention under the banner of “cyber
sovereignty.” The report takes a particular look into how these
constraints burden writers and other creative professionals, as the
government wields its power to ensure no one becomes so popular and
nothing goes so viral on social media as to slip beyond the state’s
control."
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