In a further blow to the country’s freedom of expression, the Chinese government is proposing new regulations that would prohibit news reporting by sources that are not directly financed by the Communist Party. The restrictions would strengthen the Chinese government’s control over news and information.
According to a paper filed with China’s National Development and Reform Council on Friday, private cash cannot be used to support news collecting, broadcasting, and distribution, including social media. It said that privately financed groups “must not engage in the business of news collecting, editing, or broadcasting.”It would also prohibit news organisations from duplicating news information produced by foreign media organisations. Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post, which is owned by Alibaba, and the financial news site Caixin, which is funded by Tencent, might be affected. The website of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the State Development and Reform Commission (SDRC) is’soliciting public opinion’ on adding private sector involvement in media organisations to a list of prohibited ventures, according to Radio Free Asia. NN: Stalin said ideas are more dangerous then guns. We do not let them have guns and we are for sure not going to let them have ideas. Ideas come from the uncensored free press. Fake news, hate speech, political speak and ALL the writings of the honest, dishonest, hateful, confused and the brilliant among us. No free press, no ideas… no ideas = no freedom. China is the gravest threat the world faces.. Want proof look at the plague they engineered and launched on mankind… Mark my words here this is just the start. And for most of us the information mined from the free press has kept most of us alive.