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 as “Directives from the Ministry of Truth.”
A 2012 ad published in the Apple Daily asking if readers are willing to spend HK$1 mil every 18 minutes to raise mainland children born in the city. A locust looms over Hong Kong. (Apple Daily)
State Council Information Office: All websites are kindly asked to delete the Tencent article "Where Does Mainlanders' Benefactor Mentality Come From?" (February 20, 2014)
国信办：请各网查删腾讯《大陆人的恩主心态从何来》一文。
Leding with recent Hong Kong protests to "exterminate locusts" (灭蝗), the article lists six reasons why many mainland Chinese feel that China is a "benefactor" to the economies of Hong Kong, the United States, and other countries. Many Hong Kong residents resent mainlanders traveling to the territory to give birth, buying up infant formula, and flaunting subway rules.
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CDT collects these directives from a variety of sources and checks 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.
