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Self-Censorship
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2018 · Film · documentary · 117 min
Directed by Kevin H.J. Lee, Lu Pei-Ling
This thought-provoking documentary explores how the Chinese government limits freedom in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Through extraordinary cases from the arrest of Beijing-based artist HUA Yong and the disappearances of five booksellers in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay to controversial scandals involving celebrities CHOU Tzu-yu and Leon DAI, director Kevin H.J. LEE and Lulu LU argue that even ordinary Taiwanese citizens may not be as politically and economically free from Beijing’s influence as they like to believe.
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Rumor has had it that there is a social credit system in China, and now this report reveals one part of it, which I believe is also just one small piece in the whole mass surveillance puzzle.
As a Taiwanese, I don't know how the system works, nor can I feel the same as what Chinese citizens under that surveillance feel. However I can certainly say that, there must be an another part of the system that monitors "political activists" against CCP. Let's call this part as X below.
Once you are in the blacklist of X due to reasons like criticizing Chinese government, you loses some rights implicitly, and the worst part is that X applies even if you are not a Chinese citizen. I have two examples here:
1. Taiwanese rights advocate Lee Ming-che held in China
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-39428220
Lee has been in prison since 29 March 2017, because he "ruined Nation Security." He was retained for months before he had a trial.
2. [Documentary] Self-censorship by Kevin H.J. Lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpHFVZX2TuA
He criticized CCP and then he could not obtain a visa to even Hong Kong. In this documentary, many instances of such censorship are mentioned, and you can see how the atmosphere is under such surveillance.