BBC censor website in China
February 9th, 2006
According to the Financial Times, the editorially-independent BBC which prides itself on independence from political organizations and commercial influence, has launched a website for China which censors material which the Chinese government may block.
The BBC World Service has launched a website targeted at the mainland Chinese market, offering English-language training and news that is unlikely to upset Beijing’s internet censors.
China has long blocked access to the British broadcaster’s main Chinese website, www.BBCChinese.com, which yesterday led with a story about US forecasts that Beijing’s suppression of dissent could undermine national stability.
By contrast, the top item on the broadcaster’s new www.BBCChina.com.cn site was a Chinese-language news story on the much less sensitive topic – to Beijing officials at least – about the row surrounding cartoon images of the Prophet Mohammed.
- Internet
- Comments(0)
Digg
StumbleUpon