China Forces Chinese Media To Censor Bitcoin Summit
Communist China has a long and distinguished history in censorship. Even recently, when XinJiang separatists attacked a Guangzhou train station with nothing but knives, killing and injuring over several people, the government explicitly told media: "You must not spread the news." The government does not want the news to spread because they do not want any sort of discussion about the incident, or the people involved. While this is an effective way to minimize the glorification of villains, as happens in the sensationalist Western media often, it is equally sobering way to tell victims'....
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Chinese media outlets have been issued censorship instructions by government authorities, mandating that no coverage be provided for the upcoming Global Bitcoin Summit, a Beijing-based digital currency conference to be held this weekend, 10th-11th May. The instructions, leaked online by California-based media outlet China Digital Times, provide evidence that the Chinese government is looking to limit information on bitcoin in the media. Perhaps most notably, however, the released statement suggests new guidelines for domestic reporting on bitcoin in the future have also been issued: "All....
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Yesterday was day one of China’s first-ever Global Bitcoin Summit in Beijing. The summit comes during a rough patch for Bitcoin in China as eleven of the country’s major banks have ceased dealing with customers using the digital currency. Despite even more setbacks at the last minute, the summit is so far a success. The latest blowback for the summit came on May 7, when the China Digital Times published new censorship instructions published by Chinese government authorities. One of the instructions reads as such, “(5) The Global Bitcoin Summit 2014 will be held on May 10-11 in Beijing. All....
To our Chinese Friends, Countryman, and Government - lend me your ears. The Chinese government has now ordered their press to censor news of bitcoin and our Global Bitcoin Summit. It's already too late. We are bitcoin and we're already there. People are using our currency quietly...carefully today. Does your government think their citizens don't know what the press is forbidden to report? Do they not hear your whispers behind closed doors? Your kingdom may be crumbling from corruption from the inside, yet the lies among their ranks has become circular and corruption is the fruit of their....
The state of Bitcoin in China is still up in the air. However, this spring will mark the first Bitcoin conference to take place in China. The Global Bitcoin Summit will be held in Beijing from May 10 to 11, and will be produced by Bitfund.pe and UBM China. Also supporting the event will be Bitcoin Magazine, which will serve as the event's Premier Media Sponsor. The two-day conference will shed light on future Bitcoin trends in China and provide the latest information in the industry. The Global Bitcoin Summit aims to provide the ideal platform to obtain insights for the current development....