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CBS censors animated sequence about Chinese censorship in its TV series The Good Fight
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Canadian animator Steve Angel recognizes the irony that his cartoon about censorship was, itself, censored. Angel produced an animated sequence for the US CBS TV series The Good Fight , a legal drama that argue cases about the issues of the
day. The censored episode was based on a criticism of Chinese censorship, including Angel's animated sequence typically of around 90 seconds. The animation was censored and replaced with an 8s screen reading, CBS has censored this content.
In a statement, a CBS All Access spokesperson said after raising concerns about the animated short's subject matter, it had reached this creative solution with the show's producers. Angel said he was disappointed adding:
There's the obvious irony of it, but at the same time, I think because it's pretty incendiary material, it wasn't a gigantic surprise. Angel said he couldn't comment on the content of the segment, but The New
Yorker reports the animation alludes to several subjects that have been banned online in China, including Winnie-the-Pooh, as the character was used in memes as a way to poke fun at Chinese President Xi Jinping. The magazine reports the clip featured the
leader dressed as the cartoon bear, shaking his exposed bottom. But according to the Hollywood Reporter , the segment began with a song that referenced China's decision to ban The Good Wife from internet video services in 2014 . It also
alluded to how American studios remove content from international releases to avoid upsetting Chinese censors. Channel 4 broadcast the show in the UK and have stated that it will show the episode n the same censored form as was shown in the US.
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How Chinese internet trolls go after Beijing's critics overseas See article from edition.cnn.com |
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Reporters Without Borders condemns Chinese censorship pressure from its embassy in Sweden
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18th March 2019
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns repeated attacks by the Chinese embassy against Swedish journalists and insists that diplomatic missions have no say in the editorial content of media in their host country. Chinese ambassador to Sweden,
Gui Congyou, has embarked on a truth crusade against the country's media since taking office in August 2017. The ambassador seems to have trouble understanding that in Sweden, a country ranked second in the RSF's 2018 World Press Freedom Index,
journalists are not subject to censorship. On the embassy's website, the ambassador recently posted a long, unsigned attack against SVT Nyheter, a major Swedish news outlet. The diplomat castigates the site for giving a platform to David Liao,
Representative to the Taipei Mission in Sweden, on February 27. Liao published an opinion piece calling support for Taiwanese democracy against Chinese threat. According to Gui Congyou, the article challenges the one China principle and amounts to
serious political provocation. Beijing is very aggressive in claiming sovereignty over the island of Taiwan, despite it having an independent government since 1949. The attack on SVT Nyheter is indeed not an isolated incident. Since July of 2018,
the Chinese Embassy in Stockholm has attacked multiple Swedish news sources. The ambassador was particularly harsh towards Swedish journalist Jojje Olsson, author of a book on the Swedish publisher Gui Minhai, who was kidnapped in Thailand in 2015 and is
still detained in China with no scheduled sentencing. Last December, he also attacked Swedish journalist and commentator Kurdo Baksi, accusing him of instigating hatred against China.
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Learning that development 'aid' may be used to leverage media censorship and academic controls See
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How The Chinese Government Works To Censor Debate In Western Democracies See article from
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China complains about a Swedish TV news satire programme
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China has complained to Sweden over a satirical news show on Swedish state television that advised Chinese tourists how to avoid culture clashes. China complained that the show insulted the Chinese people. The satirical programme Svenska Nyheter
(Swedish News), was aired a week after police removed three Chinese citizens from a Stockholm hotel. Local media reported they had refused to leave the hotel despite the fact they were not booked to stay there. Geng Shuang, a spokesman for the
Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement: The [Svenska Nyheter] anchor's remarks are full of discrimination, prejudice and provocation against China and other ethnic groups, completely deviating from professional
media ethics. We strongly condemn this.
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For generations, the movie industry was on the front lines battling censorship. These days, studios prefer Chinese money to free expression. See
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Twenty-six years after the killing of student protesters, the code of silence is spreading worldwide under pressure of wanting to do business in China See
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News report from Tibet on France 24
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Chinese embassy officials in France and Thailand appear bent on fostering fear and disgust with recent efforts to harass and intimidate France 24 reporter Cyril Payen. Payen, who recently returned from Tibet after filming an undercover
documentary, Seven days in Tibet , has received a barrage of harassing phone calls, text messages, and thinly veiled threats from Chinese officials, apparently from embassies in Paris and Bangkok, according to a report by France 24 and the
journalist himself. Following the release of Payen's film on May 30, Chinese embassy officials showed up at the headquarters of France 24 in Paris, demanding that the documentary be removed from the channel's website, France 24 said. The channel
refused.
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Chinese censors edit storyline to Hollywood zombie film, World War Z
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Executives at the Hollywood studio, Paramount have been worrying about a minor plot point in the $175 million zombie film, World War Z , which stars Brad Pitt. In the 'offending scene', characters debate the geographic origin of an outbreak
that caused a zombie apocalypse and point to China, a Paramount executive told TheWrap. The fast-rising prominence of the Chinese market, state censorship and the tight quotas for U.S. releases, the studio advised the movie producers to drop the
reference to China and cite a different country as a possible source of the pandemic, an executive with knowledge of the film told TheWrap. The change was made in recent days in the hopes of landing a deal for one of Paramount's biggest summer
movies to play in China.
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Author Michael Savage says the marketing campaign for his new novel depicting China at war with the U.S. has been sabotaged by advertisers who fear the China lobby. See
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| Free China: The Courage to Believe. China tries diplomatic pressure to get film banned from the Palm Beach International Film Festival
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A Chinese consulate in the U.S. has contacted the Palm Beach International Film Festival to warn them about a harmful movie they will screen that documents the violent persecution of a Chinese spiritual practice by communist authorities. The
consulate in Houston repeatedly called an organizer of the film festival making inquiries about the film, according to a spokesperson who did not want to be named, in a telephone interview with The Epoch Times: They called asking questions,
telling us that they thought it would be potentially harmful to them, The consular official was told that We're in America, according to the individual, and that the film would be shown nevertheless. Michael Perlman, the
filmmaker, understood the calls from the consulate to be an attempt at censorship: This brazen attempt to silence free speech and expression of an American citizen in the United States by the Chinese government is
dangerous and must be exposed so that these actions will not be repeated.
The documentary that aroused the phone calls is titled Free China: The Courage to Believe , and was directed by artist and activist Michael Perlman. It
will be screened publicly for the first time at the Palm Beach International Film Festival on April 14 and 16. Free China documents the persecution of Falun Gong, a popular Chinese spiritual practice, through the stories of two adherents
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| London Book Fair is highlighting Chinese authors, but somehow only those that are state approved
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The London Book Fair is facing claims it has bowed to pressure from Chinese authorities by failing to invite dissident and exiled writers to next month's event and choosing only state-approved authors. Bei Ling, an exiled poet and essayist, has
written to the British Council, the organisers of the cultural programme of the fair, which is one of the biggest international publishing events in the world, expressing his surprise over its plans to host Chinese state-approved writers and
organisations. I was amazed that no independent voice, no exiled or dissident writer from China is being represented at the London Book Fair, he told the Guardian, accusing the fair, which is focusing on China this year, of self-censorship
to keep Chinese authorities on board. It is shocking enough that the book fair has worked with Gapp (General Administration of Press and Publication, the agency responsible for regulating publications in China). In order to ensure that their
guest country was happy they exercised self-censorship and didn't push for other, non-state-approved writers, although without them you don't get a full picture of literary China, he said. ...Read the full
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Eutelsat says no to censoring Syria TV channel airing messages by Gaddafi
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French satellite operator Eutelsat has said it had no right to turn off a Syrian television station that is broadcasting audio messages by ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Gaddafi, whose whereabouts are unknown, has defiantly spoken several
times on Syria-based Arrai TV since losing control of Tripoli on Aug. 23, calling on his supporters to continue their resistance to the new authorities. Eutel, the world's third-largest satellite operator, said earlier it was in contact with local
distributor Noorsat to see whether Noorsat could stop transmitting Arrai and sister channel al-Oruba, which has also give Gaddafi a platform to speak. We talked to Noorsat and Noorsat removed al-Oruba, Eutelsat spokeswoman Vanessa O'Connor
said. That was their decision and their action. Arrai is still broadcasting and as things stand at the moment we have taken it as far as we can. O'Connor added that Eutelsat did not judge or censor content and it was not up to it to make the
decision to stop transmissions.
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A UN exhibit has been censored in Vienna after Chinese pressure to ban it. The Gun Sculpture forming the centre piece of the exhibit was created by Sandra Bromley and Wallis Kendal. The Exhibit is called the Art of Peacemaking . The 4.5-tonne sculpture, welded together from deactivated guns, landmines and ammunition, has been shown in many countries, including at UN headquarters in New York in 2001, and has never run into problems before.
The problem is that along with the sculpture is a series of panels with photographs of violence from numerous countries. But the ones that stood out for the Chinese was the photographs of two Tibetan nuns. After the Chinese objected to
exhibit organizers and other UN departments all the photographs were removed. We were absolutely shocked, said Bromley. This was done without any consultation or permission. The Chinese wanted the whole exhibit removed but the
UN just removed the panels with the photographs but this obviously completely ruins the integrity and whole purpose the exhibit.
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