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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Updated (更新)

Information Control (信息控制)

北京查处一网络推手公司 抓获“秦火火”“立二拆四” (Beijing cracks down on web company for spreading rumors, four employees taken away)
Xinhua, August 21, 2013
http://news.ifeng.com/mainland/detail_2013_08/21/28831466_0.shtml

Related Twitter post:
Beifeng 北风(温云超, Yunchao Wen), August 21, 2013
我8月2日发的推:(Retweeted from August 2, 2013) https://twitter.com/wenyunchao/status/363181267174838272 … 。RT @wenyunchao: 当局要整肃网络,对大V和有影响力草根一起下手不奇怪,目标对准炒作成性且颇不被自由派受落的秦火火也顺理成章,但应看到当局的目标是压缩民众的言论空间,而不是为了所谓的网络虚假信息。(It is not strange that "VIP" Weibo Users and influential grassroots leaders are both being targeted as the authorities try to clean-up the Internet. Although it is reasonable that Qin Huohuo, who has been a habitual rumor spreader and is not favored by liberals, has been targeted, but we should realize that the authorities’ real goal is to suppress space for public opinion, rather than to crackdown on so-called false cyber information.)
https://twitter.com/wenyunchao/status/369866932360462336