“Cultural Revolution and Democracy” news banned

News about Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang’s stupid comment which compares China’s Cultural Revolution to etreme democracy was banned in China.

In Shenzhen, Hong Kong’s neighbouring city, residents are able to view Hong Kong TV programmes and news. Last Saturday when the Hong Kong evening TV news broke that Tsang made the stupid comment, the Shengzhen residents saw only advertisements, instead of the actual broadcast of the news, a result of the censorship by the local and central government.

The Chinese government is adept at censorship, as always. But this time it was unusual that the person to be censored is a high-ranking government-appointed official, Hong Kong’s Chief Executive. Tsang has made the history.