The invisible hand of state-controlled censorship looms large in China's growing flirtation with Western concepts of intellectual expression and freedom.
A group of retired Communist Party officials, along with members of the tightly controlled state media, issued several public demands recently. The core of these call for China’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress, to dismantle censorship procedures “in favor of a system of legal responsibility” for items that are freely published.
Would you risk personal safety and professional status to stand up for a free press? Has censorship every affected your intellectual life? If so, how?
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