{"id":3603,"date":"2014-09-30T12:22:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T16:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=3603"},"modified":"2014-09-30T17:27:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T21:27:56","slug":"censors-in-china-keep-mainlanders-in-dark-about-hong-kong-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/censors-in-china-keep-mainlanders-in-dark-about-hong-kong-protests","title":{"rendered":"Censors in China keep mainlanders in dark about Hong Kong protests"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the world watches tense protests in Hong Kong, many mainland citizens in China will not be able to see the unrest because of Chinese censorship.<\/p>\n

By TIMES STAFF ChinaMedia IndustryCensorshipInstagramHong Kong<\/p>\n

Striking photos, videos and news about Hong Kong\u2019s ongoing democracy protests and clashes with police have exploded across TV, radio, newspapers worldwide in recent days, to say nothing of Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites. But thanks to a near-complete information blackout by Chinese censors, most people in mainland China remain unaware of the situation in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.<\/p>\n

Major state-run news outlets carried only brief mentions of the confrontations, if any, and the subject has been censored off popular mainland-based social media services, including Weibo and Weixin, also known as WeChat.<\/p>\n

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\nProtesters sing and wave their cellphones after a massive thunderstorm passed over outside the Hong Kong government complex on Sept. 30.<\/p>\n

Twitter and Facebook have been blocked for years by China\u2019s Great Firewall, and now Instagram — one of the few major Western social media services to escape the pinch of China\u2019s censors — appears to have joined the roster of inaccessible services, perhaps because of the Hong Kong protests.<\/p>\n

Instead, Chinese users of Weibo were preoccupied Monday with a story on how a Chinese celebrity couple had reconciled; it attracted over 440 million views, making it the top trending topic on the service. \u201cSelfies with the Chinese flag\u201d has been among the top 10 trending topics on the site for over a week, as part of the Chinese government\u2019s efforts to push celebrations of the country\u2019s upcoming 65th National Day on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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