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===Internet censorship===

===Internet censorship===

[[File:China-Winnie-Xi.jpg|right|300px|thumb|China banned Winnie-the-Pooh because of the similarities between Pooh and [[Xi Jingping]].]]  

[[File:China-Winnie-Xi.jpg|right|300px|thumb|China banned Winnie-the-Pooh because of the similarities between Pooh and [[Xi Jingping]].]]  

Between 2006 and 2010, [[Google]] had a censored version of its search engine in mainland China on google.cn. In 2010, Google ended its censored Mainland Chinese version, instead offering a link to the Hong Kong Chinese version, which did not censor search results, but is blocked in the Mainland. The Communist Party promotes Internet use for commerce, but heavily censors content it deems pornographic, anti-social or politically subversive and blocks many foreign news and social media sites, including Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. The censorship is nicknamed the "Great Firewall of China," which is based on the Great Wall of China.

Between 2006 and 2010, [[Google]] had a censored version of its search engine in mainland China on google.cn. In 2010, Google ended its censored Mainland Chinese version, instead offering a link to the Hong Kong Chinese version, which did not censor search results, but is blocked in the Mainland. The Communist Party promotes Internet use for commerce, but heavily censors content it deems pornographic, anti-social or politically subversive and blocks many foreign news and social media sites, including Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. The censorship is nicknamed the "Great Firewall of China," which is based on the Great Wall of China. However, the censorship can be easily bypassed by using a VPN.

When it was observed on social media that the cartoon character [[Winnie the Pooh]] resembled Xi Jinping at the beginning of his reign, the [[communist]] regime censored the character.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/winnie-the-pooh-censored-china-president-xi-jinping-comparisons/</ref>  Under Xi Jinping, words, names and labels such as Dalai Lama, Wei Jingsheng, Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo who died of cancer in prison hospital, and anything critical of the CCP were no longer to be found on the tightly controlled Chinese internet.  Terms like the [[Nobel Prize]], the Chinese Republic founded in 1911, and the word “mainland” were put on the index.  The entire year 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Incident of 4 June 1989 (Tiananmen Massacre), disappeared from Baidu Baike (China's Wikipedia).<ref>The Chinese character for emerald green 翠(pronounced „cui“) was banned.  The character for emerald green (翠) contains two so-called phonetic radicals, which, pronounced differently, also stand for the party leader’s surname 习 (surname: Xi) 近平 („first“ or call name: Jinping). But under the two phonetic radicals in the „head“ of the character „cui“ (翠), there is another character built in, which stands for „die“ and „perish“.  Therefor using „cui“ (翠) for emerald green on the Chinese internet, according to the logic of the censors, would mean wishing something bad on the party leader.</ref>

When it was observed on social media that the cartoon character [[Winnie the Pooh]] resembled Xi Jinping at the beginning of his reign, the [[communist]] regime censored the character.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/winnie-the-pooh-censored-china-president-xi-jinping-comparisons/</ref>  Under Xi Jinping, words, names and labels such as Dalai Lama, Wei Jingsheng, Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo who died of cancer in prison hospital, and anything critical of the CCP were no longer to be found on the tightly controlled Chinese internet.  Terms like the [[Nobel Prize]], the Chinese Republic founded in 1911, and the word “mainland” were put on the index.  The entire year 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Incident of 4 June 1989 (Tiananmen Massacre), disappeared from Baidu Baike (China's Wikipedia).<ref>The Chinese character for emerald green 翠(pronounced „cui“) was banned.  The character for emerald green (翠) contains two so-called phonetic radicals, which, pronounced differently, also stand for the party leader’s surname 习 (surname: Xi) 近平 („first“ or call name: Jinping). But under the two phonetic radicals in the „head“ of the character „cui“ (翠), there is another character built in, which stands for „die“ and „perish“.  Therefor using „cui“ (翠) for emerald green on the Chinese internet, according to the logic of the censors, would mean wishing something bad on the party leader.</ref>