All mention of Panama Papers banned from Chinese websites

[Cheese Sandwich]

Source: The Guardian

Chinese news groups have been ordered to purge all mention of the Panama Papers from their websites and warned of harsh punishment if they are found to have published material “attacking China”.

According to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the leaked trove of 11.5m files show that relatives of at least eight current or former members of China’s top ruling body, the politburo standing committee, possess offshore companies arranged though the law firm Mossack Fonseca.

Those reportedly named in the leaked database from the firm include Deng Jiagui, the brother-in-law of the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, and Li Xiaolin, the daughter of former premier Li Peng, a Communist party hardliner who became known as the “Butcher of Beijing” for his role in ordering the 1989 military crackdown on Tiananmen protesters.

But a leaked censorship directive from one provincial internet watchdog informed Chinese editors they were forbidden from covering the Panama Papers leak.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/05/all-mention-of-panama-papers-banned-from-chinese-websites

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Dwarfing

"A State which dwarfs its men people, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes -- will find that with small men people no great thing can really be accomplished." -- John Stuart Mill

[daleanime]

2. ......

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. No freedom of speech in China. Many other rights ignored. . . nt

[eppur_se_muova]

5. Uh-oh ... Repugs never heard that one before, and they've been doing it all wrong. nt

[LiberalLovinLug]

6. Its coming

When Net Neutrality is squashed. They (Republicans, and Turd Way Democracts) will keep trying to bring back bill after bill into the House until they finally slip it through attached to some other near non debatable bill like military spending or something.

When finally the major corps can have full legal control over traffic flow with their hands on levers of bandwidth. Where any left leaning site like DU will be squeezed off and be so difficult to access that many won't bother, and it will eventually die. Meanwhile Fox News sites and similar will load instantly even weighed down with all sorts of video bells and whistles to keep you coming back.

[AxionExcel]

3. Ahhh, so they are employing Republican-style strategery !

Hiding all their weird, illegal, debased, greedy and immoral shit they are doing in the freaking closet.

How Republican is that?

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[Ferd Berfel]

7. Wonder if that will happen here?

Like the Media blackout of Bernie

[snooper2]

8. Media blackout of Bernie LOL- All they talk about are Hillary Bernie Drumpf Cruzy

you should actually feel sorry for John john Kasich

[think]

10. The blackout on ABC news was real. They gave Bernie Sanders less than one minute of coverage

at a time Trump got 81 minutes of coverage. That is effectively a media blackout on a major news network.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/12/11/abc-world-news-tonight-has-devoted-less-than-on/207428

[Skittles]

12. they're pimping what sells

[Skittles]

11. thank you

I read and hear all kinds of stuff about Bernie

[Javaman]

9. aka don't let the people know that their wealthy betters are crooks.

I can bet you that there are a number of crooked Chinese rich types who are tied up in this.

and banning any mention of it does no good.

those that are effected know full well who they are.