Saturday, October 16, 2010

Even The Party faithful are censored by their own watchdogs...

Chinese ex-officials seeking end to censorship are censored themselves.

It seems to be a characteristic trait of totalitarian governments that they set up "departments" whose original purpose is to suppress opposition but which eventually evolve into self-sufficient power centers that are hellbent on their own preservation and that nobody can control- not even the bureaucrats who set them up in the first place. Looks like the Chinese Central Propaganda Department is the latest example of this...

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