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95. China's Great Firewall - Censorship in the Asian Superpower: Dr. Margaret E. Roberts (Professor in the Department of Political Science @ University of California, San Diego, and author of "Censored")


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In this episode, I talk with Dr. Margaret E. Roberts (scroll down for full bio) about China and the new age of censorship.

Topics:

  • Methods of modern censorship
  • Why free speech is bad for regimes 
  • How much does the average Chinese Citizen know?
  • How censorship creates factions in China
  • Should the West intervene?
  • The global impact of censorship
  • Democracies and censorship
  • Censorship and Covid-19 in China
  • What books have had an impact on Dr. Roberts
  • What advice Dr. Roberts has for teenagers


Books Mentioned: (I get a cut)

  • Censored: Distraction and Diversion inside China's Great Firewall by Margaret E. Roberts - https://amzn.to/3QJODtE
  • Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang - https://amzn.to/3QKcnOD


Margaret Roberts is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at the University of California, San Diego. She co-directs the China Data Lab at the 21st Century China Center. Her research interests lie in the intersection of political methodology and the politics of information, with a specific focus on methods of automated content analysis and the politics of censorship and propaganda in China.  She received a PhD from Harvard in Government (2014), MS from Stanford in Statistics (2009) and BA from Stanford in International Relations and Economics (2009).  Her book, Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall, published by Princeton University Press in 2018, was listed as one of the Foreign Affairs Best Books of 2018, was honored with the Goldsmith Book Award, and has been awarded the Best Book Award in the Human Rights Section and Information Technology and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. She holds a Chancellor's Associates Endowed Chair at UCSD.

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