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"As a writer you have a choice to make – are you going to accept censorship or not?
She backed Google's refusal to accept censorship of its Chinese-language search engine, challenging all companies to resist "a new information curtain" descending across much of the world.
Many journalists accept censorship willingly as their national contribution, don't argue with it, and criticise their peers who break with the official line.
In 1962, Fo and Rame were signed as guest stars in co-authored sketches in a popular TV variety show, Canzonissima, but after a few weeks the couple walked out, refusing to accept censorship of their politically slanted jibes.
He warned against writers justifying censorship by the percentage of a book that is left alone, explaining, "It is tempting to accept censorship as a matter of the margins — a pruning that leaves the core of the story intact — but altering the proportions of a portrait of China gives a false reflection of how China appears to the world".
It will take more than just a tough speech to change China's policies, and more than a tough speech to change the policies of far too many companies that enable Beijing and other repressive governments when they accept censorship as a normal price of doing business.
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Until 2010 Google filtered the results from its Chinese search engine in effect, accepting censorship demanded by the Chinese government.
Instead, Baidu stayed in China and accepted censorship as a price of doing business, along with China's onerous bureaucracy, slow connection speeds and a low computer penetration rate.
To the Editor: Readers of this article may infer that Prof. Ezra F. Vogel accepted censorship of his acclaimed book "Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China" — 650,000 copies of which were sold in China — because doing so was profitable for him personally.
In his remarks, Xi said that the Internet would expand in China in line with "national realities," his government's preferred term for the differences between America's regulatory conditions and China's, which include accepting censorship and government access to user information.
What prompted Google to close an office in China, rather than accept government censorship?
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