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#Showbiz #Cinema #FilmMaking
China Film Companies Ban Casting 'Non-patriotic' Actors and Actresses
Apple Daily reported that China film companies would ban Hong Kong and Taiwan actors who did not declare they "love China". Actors and actresses have to issue a statement and ensure they would not be banned by China for having an "incorrect political stance" for as long as 10 years.
Source: Apple Daily
#Apr29 #selfcensorship #mediacensorship
https://fortuneinsight.com/web/posts/490516
China Film Companies Ban Casting 'Non-patriotic' Actors and Actresses
Apple Daily reported that China film companies would ban Hong Kong and Taiwan actors who did not declare they "love China". Actors and actresses have to issue a statement and ensure they would not be banned by China for having an "incorrect political stance" for as long as 10 years.
Source: Apple Daily
#Apr29 #selfcensorship #mediacensorship
https://fortuneinsight.com/web/posts/490516
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#Censorship #SelfCensorship
HKU Crops a Group Photo to Allegedly "Dis-appear" Pro-democracy Activist
Macau casino tycoon Stanley Ho died on May 26 at the age of 98. While the Hong Kong University released a group photo taken during Ho's visit to the university mourning his decease, Edward Leung, the famed imprisoned localist pro-democracy activist who was a then-student, was cut out from the photo.
Many netizens suspected the move was out of fear of the National Security Law, that the Chinese Communist Party may crack down on the university as Leung advocated for an anti-Beijing agenda.
Source: Stand News #May26
#EdwardLeung #StanleyHo #HKU #NationalSecurityLaw
HKU Crops a Group Photo to Allegedly "Dis-appear" Pro-democracy Activist
Macau casino tycoon Stanley Ho died on May 26 at the age of 98. While the Hong Kong University released a group photo taken during Ho's visit to the university mourning his decease, Edward Leung, the famed imprisoned localist pro-democracy activist who was a then-student, was cut out from the photo.
Many netizens suspected the move was out of fear of the National Security Law, that the Chinese Communist Party may crack down on the university as Leung advocated for an anti-Beijing agenda.
Source: Stand News #May26
#EdwardLeung #StanleyHo #HKU #NationalSecurityLaw
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#Censorship
Catholic Newspaper Makes Unauthorized Deletions in Article Critical of HK Government and Police
An article by the Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese was printed in the Catholic newspaper Kung Kao Po, but with statements removed without the commission's consent.
The deleted content included criticisms against the Hong Kong government's decisions during the Anti-ELAB movement, as well as the police's lack of respect for human life.
In a response to media, Kung Kao Po said they hope the Commission would respect their editorial freedom, and denied that they were ordered to censor their content.
The article, titled "What Price a Life?", was printed in the Justice and Peace Commission column in issue #4006 of the newspaper.
According to a statement by the Commission, the newspaper deleted parts of the article, and published the edited version without their consent: "We hereby solemnly declare that the edited article has no relation to us."
The commission had contacted the paper multiple times to express that they did not accept the edit, "yet their chief editor did not respect our wishes, and published in our column the edited version, which we do not agree with. We deeply regret the paper's decision."
The original text provided by the Commission shows that three sentences were deleted by the paper. These included statements critical of the government and police force during the anti-ELAB movement:
"Yet the government had also made decisions during the anti-ELAB movement that caused the public to worry that a humanitarian crisis may be developing."
"However, the non-elected HKSAR government has time and again neglected human dignity; if the police force, which ought to defend the safety of the people, had neglected the value of human life; how can such a Hong Kong be repaired and restored?"
"Even though speaking the truth today may cause an 'even higher level' threat to be brought down upon us, we can no longer fall back and compromise."
Source: Stand News #Nov26
#WhiteTerror #FreedomOfPress #SelfCensorship #KungKaoPo
#JusticeandPeaceCommission
Catholic Newspaper Makes Unauthorized Deletions in Article Critical of HK Government and Police
An article by the Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese was printed in the Catholic newspaper Kung Kao Po, but with statements removed without the commission's consent.
The deleted content included criticisms against the Hong Kong government's decisions during the Anti-ELAB movement, as well as the police's lack of respect for human life.
In a response to media, Kung Kao Po said they hope the Commission would respect their editorial freedom, and denied that they were ordered to censor their content.
The article, titled "What Price a Life?", was printed in the Justice and Peace Commission column in issue #4006 of the newspaper.
According to a statement by the Commission, the newspaper deleted parts of the article, and published the edited version without their consent: "We hereby solemnly declare that the edited article has no relation to us."
The commission had contacted the paper multiple times to express that they did not accept the edit, "yet their chief editor did not respect our wishes, and published in our column the edited version, which we do not agree with. We deeply regret the paper's decision."
The original text provided by the Commission shows that three sentences were deleted by the paper. These included statements critical of the government and police force during the anti-ELAB movement:
"Yet the government had also made decisions during the anti-ELAB movement that caused the public to worry that a humanitarian crisis may be developing."
"However, the non-elected HKSAR government has time and again neglected human dignity; if the police force, which ought to defend the safety of the people, had neglected the value of human life; how can such a Hong Kong be repaired and restored?"
"Even though speaking the truth today may cause an 'even higher level' threat to be brought down upon us, we can no longer fall back and compromise."
Source: Stand News #Nov26
#WhiteTerror #FreedomOfPress #SelfCensorship #KungKaoPo
#JusticeandPeaceCommission
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#Censorship #Erasure
Chinese University of Hong Kong Deletes Content on General Education Salon
While the public broadcaster #RTHK was deleting programmes on YouTube, the General Education (#GE) Salon of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (#CUHK) has also been found deleting its own videos on its Youtube channel.
It used to be a platform where professors share their knowledge relating to practical experiences in Hong Kong. The videos deleted include “1984 and the Brave New World” , “On Liberty” and Benny Tai's “the Rule of Law Culture”
Professor Chow Po-chung, a speaker on the channel and well-known public intellectual, is shocked by the news. “These are a kind of public resource! Of course I wish they can be left undeleted.”
Source: Stand News #May4
http://www.thestandnews.com/society/%E4%B8%AD%E5%A4%A7%E9%80%9A%E8%AD%98%E6%B2%99%E9%BE%8D%E6%95%B8%E5%8D%81%E6%A2%9D-youtube-%E7%89%87-%E6%B6%88%E5%A4%B1-%E5%8C%85%E6%8B%AC%E6%88%B4%E8%80%80%E5%BB%B7%E4%B8%BB%E8%AC%9B-%E6%B3%95%E6%B2%BB%E6%96%87%E5%8C%96-%E5%91%A8%E4%BF%9D%E6%9D%BE-%E9%A9%9A%E8%A8%9D/
#PoliceState #SelfCensorship #Youtube #GeneralEducation
Chinese University of Hong Kong Deletes Content on General Education Salon
While the public broadcaster #RTHK was deleting programmes on YouTube, the General Education (#GE) Salon of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (#CUHK) has also been found deleting its own videos on its Youtube channel.
It used to be a platform where professors share their knowledge relating to practical experiences in Hong Kong. The videos deleted include “1984 and the Brave New World” , “On Liberty” and Benny Tai's “the Rule of Law Culture”
Professor Chow Po-chung, a speaker on the channel and well-known public intellectual, is shocked by the news. “These are a kind of public resource! Of course I wish they can be left undeleted.”
Source: Stand News #May4
http://www.thestandnews.com/society/%E4%B8%AD%E5%A4%A7%E9%80%9A%E8%AD%98%E6%B2%99%E9%BE%8D%E6%95%B8%E5%8D%81%E6%A2%9D-youtube-%E7%89%87-%E6%B6%88%E5%A4%B1-%E5%8C%85%E6%8B%AC%E6%88%B4%E8%80%80%E5%BB%B7%E4%B8%BB%E8%AC%9B-%E6%B3%95%E6%B2%BB%E6%96%87%E5%8C%96-%E5%91%A8%E4%BF%9D%E6%9D%BE-%E9%A9%9A%E8%A8%9D/
#PoliceState #SelfCensorship #Youtube #GeneralEducation