Censorship of media in China

 China has a more comprehensive internet censorship than any other country in the world. The government blocks content and monitors peoples internet access. Many major internet platforms in China have created self-censorship mechanisms, such as time limits on online gameplay. The government has censorship over all media capable of reaching wide audiences such as TV, print, radio, film, text, video games, literature and online website usage. The reason behind the censorship in China is for social control as the internet is a means for freedom of speech, which could lead to protests against the government.

Google China's search engine launched back in 2006 and was pulled from the Chinese web in 2010 amid a major hack Google and disputes around censorship of search results.

Tencent are multinational conglomerate company that hold one of the highest grossing multi-media revenue in trhe world. Tencent are the original founders of TikTok before they were bought by ByteDance. TikTok is known in china as Douyin and is also owned by ByteDance. 

In 2004, over 400 kinds of daily newspapers were published in China, the circulation reaching 80 million.