‘Occupy’ Keywords Blocked on Chinese ‘Twitter’ Sina Weibo | Talking Points Memo

Supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement and its associated global protests in cities across the world have not been shy about their use of social media, especially Twitter, to spread awareness and news about their causes. But good luck even mentioning the phenomena in China, where the country’s second-most popular microblog, Sina Weibo, has gone ahead and blocked basically all “Occupy”-related keywords in uers’ searches.The Orwellian discovery was made on Friday by the China Digital Times, a bilingual China news website run by the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Information’s Counter-Power lab. (H/t: GOOD)


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