Monday, September 30, 2013

In an article from Reuters it is reported that the People's Liberation Internet Police are once again cracking down, this time on mobile phone apps that can deliver foreign news to Chinese. PLIP says these news apps can "harm the physical and mental health of youngsters."  Harm "physical and mental health?" Even by PLIP standards that seems an extravagant charge but the article then goes on to say that that includes banned articles from "such as the New York Times" so PLIP has a point there. Among other sites blocked in the PRC is this one http://publicoccurrenc.blogspot.com/ which the undersigned has personally inspected and found also to be injurious. Potentially.