Chinese state media censors itself after highlighting poem about corrupt leaders

[CIA Mole]

Chinese state media censors itself after highlighting poem about corrupt leaders

Video produced by the People’s Daily that included literary work on lazy and drunk officials was quickly taken down

www.theguardian.com

why does it need to be censored? isn't anti-corruption a mainstay policy?

 

[Kuru]

I remember they banned the movie Shawshank Redemption because a blind Chinese made a daring escape from the CCP to the American Embassy

China dissident's escape "more exciting than Shawshank Redemption"

The woman who drove blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng to Beijing after his dramatic escape from house arrest in eastern China told how she sat down with security officers afterwards to watch the jailbreak movie, "The Shawshank Redemption".

www.reuters.com

The “Shawshank Redemption”, a 1994 movie starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, tells the story of a prisoner wrongly accused of murder, his fight to clear his name and his eventual jailbreak.

It is now blocked as a search term on Chinese microblogs.

After taking refuge in the U.S. embassy in Beijing, Chen became the centre of a diplomatic crisis just as top U.S. officials arrived in the capital for previously scheduled talks.