{"id":20020,"date":"2010-05-29T20:01:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T20:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/tension_grows_in_china_between_netizens_and_online_censorhip\/"},"modified":"2010-05-29T20:01:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T20:01:17","slug":"tension_grows_in_china_between_netizens_and_online_censorhip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20020","title":{"rendered":"Tension grows in China between netizens and online censorhip."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> When blogger Isaac Mao recently announced online an upcoming talk by a Beijing writer whose work is banned by the government, police showed up at his door at night to &#8220;convince&#8221; him to cancel the event, which he eventually agreed to do. But just to be sure, authorities turned off the electricity at the planned meeting space and barred the doors.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese officials say such actions are aimed at creating &#8220;social harmony.&#8221; In the sarcastic lexicon of Chinese netizens, Mao was &#8220;harmonized&#8221; that April evening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They won&#8217;t arrest you to stop you, but they pressure you,&#8221; said Mao, whose website is blocked by the government. &#8220;They pressured the owners of this space and they threatened to close it down. Many people worry about losing their jobs. That&#8217;s why many people self-censor themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/business\/ci_15184475?nclick_check=1\">Read the whole article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When blogger Isaac Mao recently announced online an upcoming talk by a Beijing writer whose work is banned by the government, police showed up at his door at night to &#8220;convince&#8221; him to cancel the event, which he eventually agreed<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20020\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,201,94,502,114,151,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-blogging-the-internet","category-china","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}