The masses protesting Communist Party control finally overwhelm China\u0027s censorship regime
A plume of thick black smoke was rising from a pile of burning tires on the bridge deck. There was a man up there in a yellow hard hat and orange work vest hanging banners from the railing. No need for lockdown, need freedom. No need for lie, need respect. No need for cultural revolution, need reform. No need for a Communist Party leader, need for real elections. Be citizens, not slaves.
What’s happening at the moment is extraordinary mostly because the censors just can’t keep up. The Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission is overwhelmed. So is the Internet Security Emergency Command Center, the Internet Management Office and the Illegal and Unhealthy Information Reporting Center. Videos of the uprisings are flooding out from underneath the “Great Firewall of China” that the Chinese Communist Party has constructed around the country.
And the censors can’t keep up now as hundreds of thousands of people stare down riot police in Beijing, Shanghai, Urumqi, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Nanjing, and in Wuhan — the city in Hubei province where the coronavirus was first unleashed upon the world in late 2019, several weeks before the authorities publicly admitted what was happening. Protests have been logged pretty much everywhere. Students have joined in at more than 50 universities across the country.
What was extraordinary too about his protest that day is that it occurred at a moment when every corner of Beijing was crawling with police, and the Ministry of State Security was in a heightened state of paranoia. There were more than 2,000 senior Communist Party officials in town for meetings that take place only once every five years.Article content
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