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China - 2 Major Microblogging sites suspended comments after punishment for allowing rumours to spread
China - 2 Major Microblogging sites suspended comments after punishment for allowing rumours to spread
More government censorship.......
China's major microblogs suspend comment function to 'clean up rumors'
(Xinhua)
10:40, March 31, 2012
BEIJING, March 31 (Xinhua) -- Two major Chinese microblogging sites, weibo.com and t.qq.com, have suspended comment functions after they were punished for allowing rumors to spread.
China arrests six people and disciplines websites over online rumours of a coup, the latest fall-out from a high-level politician's sacking.
Chinese police have arrested six people and shut 16 websites after rumours were spread that military vehicles were on the streets of Beijing, officials say.
The web posts were picked up last week by media outlets around the world, amid uncertainty caused by the ouster of top political leader Bo Xilai.
The State Internet Information Office (SIIO) said the rumours had a "very bad influence on the public".
Two popular microblogs have temporarily stopped users from posting comments.
The two sites, Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo, are still letting people post to their own sites. But they said commenting on other people's posts would be disabled between 31 March and 3 April, so they "could act to stop the spread of rumours".
A spokesman for the SIIO told state news agency Xinhua earlier that the two websites had been "criticised and punished accordingly".
He added that that a number of other people had been "admonished or educated"
China Eases Crackdown on Internet
Restrictions on Microblogging Sites Sparked an Angry Backlash but Showed Beijing's Will to Control Flow of Information
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The companies don't disclose specifics, but analysts estimate that they each employ hundreds of people to filter online comment. Any increase in that effort will intensify the cat-and-mouse game they play with online government critics, who use code words and nicknames to get around the corporate censors.
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"Not being able to comment on Weibo is as painful as constipation?you want to talk but you can't," a Sina Weibo user who goes by the name Han wrote.
"...there’s an obvious contest that’s happening between different sectors of the colonial ruling class in this country. And they would, if they could, lump us into their beef, their struggle." ---- Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Socialist Party
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