> The Cyberspace Administration of China runs the government’s expansive online censorship regime. It’s been accused of extracting forced confessions from journalists, and has allegedly carried out so-called man-in-the-middle attacks against Apple, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google. The agency banned over 100 apps from Chinese app stores in 2020 (among them, TripAdvisor) as part of a move to “clean up China’s internet.”
> [Musk wrote] a little-seen column for the official magazine of the Cyberspace Administration of China, the Beijing agency that censors China’s internet. Musk—the first foreigner to appear in China Wangxin, which had previously only published government officials and leaders of state-owned companies—pitched sustainable energy, his Neuralink brain implants, and the colonization of Mars in a several-page-long spread. “Thank you for the invitation from China Cyberspace magazine,” he wrote, according to a translation by a Chinese reporter. “I am pleased to share with my Chinese friends some of my thoughts on the vision of technology and humanity.”
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> The Cyberspace Administration of China runs the government’s expansive online censorship regime. It’s been accused of extracting forced confessions from journalists, and has allegedly carried out so-called man-in-the-middle attacks against Apple, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google. The agency banned over 100 apps from Chinese app stores in 2020 (among them, TripAdvisor) as part of a move to “clean up China’s internet.”
> [Musk wrote] a little-seen column for the official magazine of the Cyberspace Administration of China, the Beijing agency that censors China’s internet. Musk—the first foreigner to appear in China Wangxin, which had previously only published government officials and leaders of state-owned companies—pitched sustainable energy, his Neuralink brain implants, and the colonization of Mars in a several-page-long spread. “Thank you for the invitation from China Cyberspace magazine,” he wrote, according to a translation by a Chinese reporter. “I am pleased to share with my Chinese friends some of my thoughts on the vision of technology and humanity.”