Obama Faces Chinese Censorship
Barack Obama’s campaign & election has been followed by a large section of Chinese internet population & his immense popularity among Chinese has emerged out in various surveys. However many were disappointed, if not downright annoyed when his inauguration speech faced Chinese censorship for his references to communism & dissent.
AP Reports :
The Chinese translation of the speech, credited to the Web site of the official English-language newspaper China Daily, was missing the word “communism” in the first sentence. The paragraph with the sentence on dissent had been removed entirely.
The censored version was carried by Xinhua, the official news agency, and posted on popular online portals like Sina and Sohu. Another portal, Netease, used a version without the paragraph mentioning communism, but retaining the part about dissent.
Few lucky could actually bypass the censorship using Filipino satellite equipment, however a majority of the Obama fans searched for his speech & china policy. Here is what we are seeing in Google china as Top 10 ‘Obama’ related search :
The government allowed the full English text of the address to be published & defended the censorship on state television & domestic websites of inauguration speech references by U.S. President Barack Obama to communism and dissent, saying it was an editorial right.
More reviews on chinahere.
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January 23rd, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Interesting how we can follow users behavior and trace their actions..China has sure made this a challenge.
January 23rd, 2009 at 6:13 pm
> Few lucky could actually bypass the censorship
No, most of us bypass the censorship.
January 26th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
no fucking way, there is no communism in china. Its state dictatorship.
January 29th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
@est: Kudos to you, keep it up.
@Apurba: Thank you for this – I haven’t seen it reported anywhere.
January 30th, 2009 at 3:39 am
well, http://ifeng.com/ has translated the total speech.
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