Self Censorship...

Here is a very fine example of the danger to freedoms in the region. This printer is ceasing to provide printing services to the Falun Gong [in Hong Kong], the outlawed meditation sect in the PRC.

It is easy to understand the fear that the printer has of potentially becoming a pawn in the designs of the PRC's CCP leadership for regional hegemony. If everyone is afraid to print or publish materials critical of the PRC leadership, then the CCP can control the propaganda.

The Epoch Times, a newspaper linked to the Falun Gong that employs the group's followers, said it might cease publication this weekend after its printer said it will no longer print the paper.

The newspaper's chief editor, Amy Chu, told The Standard Wednesday that the printer, whom she did not name, had served notice in March that it will stop printing copies from Saturday.

Chu said the printer, which had signed a one-year agreement extension with the newspaper in January, said it feared it might affect other business if it continued providing printing service for The Epoch Times.

So, are the printers other customers being pressured or is the printer being pressured directly from the communists? Are the other customers worried that the risk is too great for them to be associated in doing business with a printer that is doing business with the Falun Gong?

According to an Agence France-Presse report, The Epoch Times has contacted a dozen other printing firms and all have refused to print it, the paper's spokesman Tony Chan said.

Isn't this just sick? The CCP is just a rot that will infect and swallow anyone and anything that comes in its path. The old "One country, two systems," has gvien way to "One country, one communist unaccountable system."

At least for the time being we have the internet untill they try shutting that down here in Hong Kong too.