China Censors Australia’s ABC Website

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation building in Ultimo, Sydney. (J Bar/CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)]/Wikimedia Commons)

The Chinese Communist Party banned the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s website on Aug. 22 without an explanation as to why, the ABC has reported.

When the ABC insisted on clarification regarding the reason for the ban, an official from the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission eventually responded with the generic reply that “China’s internet is fully open.”