How China’s Response to COVID-19 Set the Stage for a Worldwide Wave of Censorship | The New Yorker

How China’s Response to COVID-19 Set the Stage for a Worldwide Wave of Censorship

Authoritarian governments in eighty nations have enacted restrictions on free speech and political expression that were falsely described as public-health measures.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-chinas-response-to-covid-19-set-the-stage-for-a-worldwide-wave-of-censorship

on January 23, 2020, the city of Wuhan went into lockdown. The next day, Chen boarded the last train from Beijing to Wuhan. “When disaster happens, if you don’t rush to the front lines as soon as possible, what kind of journalist are you?”