#58 Fu King-wa: “Chinese censorship has evolved into full information control”

MERICS China Podcast

English - June 15, 2018 00:00 - 18 minutes - 13 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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June 15, 2018Internet censorship in China has evolved from just blocking websites into an elaborate system of information control, says Fu King-wa, Associate Professor at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre of the University of Hong Kong. Fu has developed projects that track what has been deleted on the Chinese web. His assessment of the current situation is bleak: The space for public expression is depressingly small, he says. The authorities want to control everything. Yet the #MeToo debate in China also demonstrates that that not all discussion can be suppressed – even in China. Listen to Fu King-wa in the MERICS Experts podcast.