China imposed a CNN blackout during a Monday night report about the Communist Party's ongoing persecution of Christians.
"We've just gone to black in China," anchor Anderson Cooper said during the report. "So we're no longer being seen in China."
A moment before Cooper's announcement, a camera showing CNN's live feed as it's seen in China displayed a quick message in Chinese, and then went completely dark.
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China's Communist party has repeatedly censored stories about its crackdown on Christians in eastern China, and CNN's producers had expected the blackout.
Cooper went on to air the report, introducing a segment created by journalist David McKenzie, who was on the ground in China. In the segment, he shows footage of mass unrest. In it, uniformed Chinese officials beat some Christians bloody, and tear crucifixes off of their churches.
McKenzie reported that Christianity is growing in China, and the Communist Party sees it as a threat to their entrenched power. Thus, they harass Christians, then censor the reports of their harassment.
Both Cooper and McKenzie tweeted out messages and links to their report, which is important because oftentimes the only chance Chinese citizens have of seeing these reports is via social media and the Internet.
Chinese authorities also censor much of the Internet, however the Internet is much harder to police than television, and many citizens are able to see censored content before it gets deleted or blocked in what at times becomes a giant game of cat and mouse.
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