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A few years ago I read that censorship around Tiananmen was becoming harder in places such as newspaper classifieds (not sure if this is the term used in North
by narcissus 13y ago
A few years ago I read that censorship around Tiananmen was becoming harder in places such as newspaper classifieds (not sure if this is the term used in North America, at least?) because the staff taking the calls for these ads were less likely to know what it was referencing.
That is to say, it was becoming easier to make a veiled reference to the event because the person doing up the ad didn't know that it happened, and so can't really censor anything that, I guess, isn't already on their 'censor radar'.
Like I say, it was something I read once and I have no link available. Interesting nonetheless (even if it isn't true).
- afreak 13y agoThe term "newspaper classified" has been replaced by "Craigslist".
- 67726e 13y agoMost newspapers still have classified sections. The term hasn't been replaced, it's just more common for people to use Craigslist (at least among younger people) than to use newspaper classifieds.
- akurtzhs 13y agoI don't know if it's common, but what you're talking about did happen. In 2007 someone slipped an ad into the Chengdu Evening News that said "Paying tribute to the strong(-willed) mothers of June 4 victims". The clerk who took the ad didn't know about the 1989 protests, and so let it go through. The mainland Chinese I've brought it up to certainly knew about it though.