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"Following the passage of a new cybersecurity law and the removal of term limits from Chinese president Xi Jinping, China's government is conducting a comprehensive crackdown on online discussions and content, with few companies spared the rod by the central government."
- "Among the causalities has been Bytendance, the extremely high-flying $20 billion media unicorn startup that was forced to publicly apologize for content that degraded the character of the nation.
- Another high-flying media unicorn, Kuaishou, has been under fire for allowing teenage moms to be depicted in a positive light.
- Meanwhile, over at Sina Weibo, China's Twitter-like service, the company announced on Friday that it would ban violent and gay content from the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film, and Television.
- There are other forms of censorship underway these days in China. China's soccer players recently were banned from having tattoos, as it depicts a "dispirited culture," which is banned on all media.
- Perhaps most importantly, the government has banned the use of private VPN's, in order to better control online discourse.
- China's censorship regime is certainly not new, but its intensity around culture and how it is depicted is relatively novel. . . ."
~ Read entire article and see photos @: Techcrunch
