Why does China broadcast the World Cup matches with censorship?
China’s state television is censoring scenes of spectators without masks in the stands of the World Cup stadiums to quell the anger of its people about the country’s strict mask rules.
Charso Press: In the midst of increasing cases of Covid-19 in China, there are widespread protests against the return of strict protocols in this country.
In China, quarantines have been re-established and people have been encouraged to participate in mass corona tests. In this regard, tens of millions of people are in the big cities of this country, including Beijing, on weekends, but the broadcasting of the World Cup matches in millions of homes and the non-use of masks by football fans in Qatar have angered them; In a rare display of public unrest in China, they took to the streets. Hundreds of people protested in Beijing and Shanghai over the weekend, and in these protests, questions were raised about the plan that China is not on the same planet as Qatar.
These controversies had taken on a more serious color in the cyber space before the images of the team’s fans without masks on the state television of this country were removed.
The World Cup matches in China are broadcast on the country’s state television – CCTV Sports, and in the censorship of some scenes, close-ups of fans without masks are replaced by images and videos of players and coaches of the teams or a remote image of the stadium.