The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Chinese journalists and bloggers often refer to these instructions as “Directives from the Ministry of Truth.”
State Council Information Office: Recently there has been considerably more online mockery and criticism of the Party’s mass line activities. All websites are asked to promptly delete all types of negative contents, focusing on increased managment of comments posted to related news stories. (July 9, 2013)
国新办:近期网上对党的群众路线教育实践活动的调侃和非议言论比较多,请各网站及时清理各类负面信息,重点要对相关报道的新闻跟帖加强管理。
CDT has collected the selections we translate here from a variety of sources and has checked them against official Chinese media reports to confirm their implementation.
Since directives are sometimes communicated orally to journalists and editors, who then leak them online, the wording published here may not be exact. The original publication date on CDT Chinese is noted after the directives; the date given may indicate when the directive was leaked, rather than when it was issued. CDT does its utmost to verify dates and wording, but also takes precautions to protect the source.