{"id":1757100,"date":"2022-11-30T13:18:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T18:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757100"},"modified":"2022-11-30T13:18:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T18:18:32","slug":"beating-the-big-silence-chinese-protesters-use-videos-to-overcome-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beating-the-big-silence-chinese-protesters-use-videos-to-overcome-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Beating \u2018the Big Silence\u2019: Chinese Protesters Use Videos to Overcome Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbeating-the-big-silence-chinese-protesters-use-videos-to-overcome-censorship%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757100&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">&#8216;Once the anger spills onto the street, it becomes much harder to censor,&#8217; says expert<\/p>\n<p>    A protest in Beijing \/ Reuters   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/karl-salzmann\/\" title=\"Posts by Karl Salzmann\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Karl Salzmann<\/a> \u2022 November 30, 2022 1:15 pm  <\/p>\n<p>Mass videos of anti-regime protests across China have shaken the communist dictatorship&#8217;s censorship apparatus, creating what one expert calls &#8220;a decisive breach of the big silence,&#8221; the New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/30\/business\/china-protests-censorship-video.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Videos of demonstrators have flooded Chinese sites such as WeChat and Douyin. According to experts, &#8220;the sheer volume of video clips has likely overwhelmed the automated software and armies of censors China has tasked with policing the internet,&#8221; the Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once the anger spills onto the street, it becomes much harder to censor,&#8221; internet freedom researcher Xiao Qiang told the Times. The government simply can&#8217;t scrutinize hundreds of videos of protests, shot from different angles, as it can a single viral video, Xiao noted. Some video posters have also started employing tricks, such as flipping screens, using filters, or taking videos of videos, to bypass censorship.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Times<\/em>\u2018s report follows two large Chinese cities&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/chinese-cities-ease-covid-restrictions-after-protesters-clash-with-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcements<\/a> that they would ease up on COVID restrictions following clashes between protesters and police.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters across China last week began demanding an end to the regime&#8217;s zero-COVID policy, which has caused years of lockdowns. A fire last week <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/uyghur-activists-want-biden-admin-to-press-china-for-answers-on-deadly-building-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly killed<\/a>\u00a0dozens of people who could not escape a burning building because of COVID-19 regulations.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators have gone so far as to call for the downfall of the Chinese Communist Party and dictator Xi Jinping. Shanghai protesters over the weekend chanted, &#8220;Xi Jinping! Step down! CCP! Step down!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chinese citizens are also figuring out ways to see accounts on blocked sites such as Twitter and Instagram. Twitter videos posted by one anti-regime activist have gone viral in China.<\/p>\n<p>Such viral videos have allowed protests to grow larger, the <em>Times<\/em> wrote. One former journalist told the paper that he attended multiple protests in Shanghai &#8220;after seeing videos on WeChat from his friends at the gathering.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mass videos of anti-regime protests across China have shaken the communist dictatorship&#8217;s censorship apparatus, creating what one expert calls &#8220;a decisive breach of the big silence,&#8221; the New York Times reported Wednesday.<br \/>\nThe post Beating \u2018the Big Silence\u2019: Chinese Protesters Use Videos to Overcome Censorship appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":1757103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1757100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1757103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}