China has banned BBC World News from broadcasting in the country, its television and radio regulator announced on Thursday.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-56030340
Something they said?
@gemlog
They're returning the favour of Ofcom, who revoked the UK licence of a Chinese news broadcaster earlier in the week.
@PhotonQyv ah. Thanks.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55931548
Plus, obviously the BBC keep mentioning the Uighar, and Hong Kong and so on.
@PhotonQyv Hong Kong’s RTHK suspends BBC World News after ban in China over Xinjiang reporting
https://hongkongfp.com/2021/02/12/hong-kongs-rthk-suspends-bbc-world-news-after-ban-in-china-over-xinjiang-reporting/
@gemlog
Not really all that surprising. As far as China is concerned Hong Kong is China and has been since 1999.
BBC is not saying HK is not Chinese, they just reported on protests.
We actually have been through this a few times already - as Holocaust unrolled in the occupied Eastern Europe in early 40's, there were numerous witness reports about German atrocities, but they were widely ignored by the Western media precisely for the same excuses - no hard evidence, harms relations with Germany, wouldn't achieve anything etc.
Actually, we're repeating history over and over...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mass_Extermination_of_Jews_in_German_Occupied_Poland
