Among the many "enemies" that Wikileaks is facing the fiercest is the Chinese dragon. He said the same Julian Assange in an interview published yesterday in the British journal New Statesman: "In terms of censorship - in the words of Assange - China is the worst villain, the enemy number one technology: systems has aggressive and sophisticated interception intruding between any Chinese readers and sources of information outside the country." To confirm the view of the world champion for the freedom of the press, now comes news from Beijing. The Ministry of Propaganda has banned the term "civil society" on the Chinese media. The complaint comes from some blog, explaining how the Chinese phrase "gongmin Shehu", "civil society" in fact, has been banned by the media.
According to online reports, the decision of the Ministry of Propaganda stems from the desire to respond to increasing citizen participation in politics, especially thanks to the Internet (including the Nobel Prize Liu Xiaobo had spread its call for democracy on the Web). Because the new ban, it must be said for luck as freedom of expression will always find new ways to work around the stupidity of censorship.
"Since the term 'civil society' is not allowed - wrote on the forum Liao Baoping China Media Project, a journalist from the Changjiang Daily Commercial - some media have begun to use the term 'public company' which I think is even stronger. Prohibit certain expressions certainly can not serve to eliminate opinions.
" The choice of Liao is very simple, because only a change in Chinese ideogram, from "gongmin Shehu" a "gonggong Shehu", a term already used in many newspapers as "harmonized". Despite the censorship, "civil society" and the desire for freedom continue to grow in China. , January 15, 2011
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