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China video services take censorship into own hands
Published Mon, Aug 10, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Hong Kong
IN China, even aspiring singers and would-be comedians bow to constant and automatic online surveillance.
The country's largest "social video" websites - where viewers debate and reward their favourite karaoke ditties and comic routines - operate under severe yet hazy censorship policies that grant them broad leeway to decide what content to block, according to a study co-led by Citizen Lab.
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