Recently, Henan netizen Chen Shaotian was sentenced by the Chinese Communist Party authorities for his words. (Video screenshot)
The Communist Party of China (CPC) authorities have tightened their control over online speech to an “unprecedented degree” and have now extended their black hand to overseas social media platforms. Chen Shaotian, a Henan-based netizen known as the “National Cursing Brother,” was recently sentenced by the Chinese Communist Party authorities for “insulting and scandalizing state officials” for his insinuations about current affairs on the Internet.
According to an April 2 report by Rights Defense Network, Chen was summoned by Fugou County police on January 16 and then detained on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” and arrested by Fugou County police on January 29. He was later prosecuted by the Fugou County Prosecutor’s Office on the same charge.
The CCP prosecutors accused Chen Shaotian of making videos of himself and posting them on Twitter between March 2020 and January 2021, 50 of which were videos “speculating on hot and sensitive events in China, attacking the political system and insulting and scandalizing state officials,” because his words and actions “The videos “seriously damaged the country’s image.
On March 25, Chen Shaotian was sentenced in the first instance by the Fugou County Court to one year and two months in prison for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble. It is reported that Chen Shaotian had said in an interview, the initial video only to record life, and then because of the uncomfortable social abnormalities, so the passive sense of voice.
According to reports, Chen Shaotian is Zhoukou City, Henan Province, Fugou County, ancient city Yao Gang village, after becoming a company a large truck driver, network active people, screen name “days (Twitter account tiger88)”, known as Henan “national cursing brother”.
Chen Shaotian has used sarcasm to call out Chinese Communist police officers, but never mentions the word “police” and never names them. For example, he said, “The first industry raises cattle and sheep, the second industry kills cattle and slaughters sheep, the third industry eats beef and drinks sheep soup, and the fourth industry, the cultural industry – bragging and making a fool of themselves.
Because of Chen Shaotian’s criticism of the current situation, he has been called the “national scolding brother” by netizens, but also by the Chinese Communist Party’s public security system. Chen Shaotian’s Twitter account has also been frozen since his arrest.
It has been noted that the Chinese Communist Party’s speech control has gradually escalated and now extends its black hand to overseas social media platforms.
Hebei rights activist Sun Wanping was forcibly summoned for questioning by the police and then fined seven days of administrative detention for comments he made on Twitter. Columnist Gao Yu tweeted that Sun, a cultural worker and organizer active in Hebei and many other places, and that Shijiazhuang authorities were clearly engaged in political retaliation. His tweets are calm, rational, and on-topic, as he is, and are based on what he has seen and heard abroad.
Mr. Gao, a human rights activist in Hebei, told the Epoch Times that the Chinese Communist Party’s internet control is getting stricter and stricter, and that re-posting sensitive posts, or even liking posts by sensitive people, will be recorded and sought by the state security. Mr. Gao said he has been on the wall for a short time, and that he has been petitioning for years to air his grievances because of retaliation against his family for the forced demolition. As posting online in the country will be deleted, but also by the police door, so it began to Twitter and Facebook. But Facebook has been blocked a number.
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