| jstrodel |
02-26-2013 05:14 PM |
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Originally Posted by Hermione
(Post 1290645)
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Look at this:
Human rights in China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A legalistic definition will really help millions who are chained under Communism. Maybe that punk rock is allowed only because it is similar to the Trotskyist punk rock that was around in Britain (see link I posted).
Unfortunately, if you want to mention democracy, that won't fly.
Although the 1982 constitution guarantees freedom of speech,[15] the Chinese government often uses the subversion of state power and the protection of state secret clauses in their law system to imprison those who are critical of the government.[16] The government is also heavily involved in censoring news through the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China, even though no publically known state law explicitly authorises it or any other department of the PRC's government to engage in such activities.
The government promised to issue permits authorising people to protest in specifically designated 'protest parks' during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing,[17] but a majority of the applications were withdrawn, suspended, or vetoed,[18] and the police detained some of the people who applied.[19] References to certain controversial events and political movements as well as access to web pages considered by the PRC authorities to be 'dangerous' or 'threatening to state security' happen to be blocked on the internet in PRC-controlled China and content disputed by or critical of PRC authorities is absent from many publications, subject to the CPC's control within mainland China .[20] Laws in the People's Republic of China forbid the advocacy of seperation of any part of its claimed territory from PRC-controlled Mainland China, as well as public challenge to the CPC's authoritarian domination of the government of China. An unsanctioned protest during the Olympics by seven foreign activists at the China Nationalities Museum, protesting for a Free Tibet and blocking the entrance, was cleared[21] and the protesters deported.[22]
Foreign internet search engines including Microsoft Bing!, Yahoo!, Google Search China[23] have come under criticism for aiding in these practices, including banning the word "democracy" from its chat rooms in China. Yahoo! in particular, stated that it will not protect the privacy and confidentiality of its Chinese customers from the authorities.[24] In 2005 reporter Shi Tao was sentenced to imprisonment for 10 years for releasing an internal Communist Party document to an overseas Chinese democracy site after Yahoo! China provided his personal emails and IP addresses to the Chinese government.[25] Skype president Josh Silverman said it was "common knowledge" that TOM had "established procedures to... block instant messages containing certain words deemed offensive by the Chinese authorities."[26] |
