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Big push against opinion-leaders big push against opinion-leading blogs Computer users sit near a display with a message from the Chinese police on the proper use of the internet at an internet cafe in Beijing, China, Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. China’s newest opinion leaders - ranging from pop stars to scholars, journalists to business tycoons - exert their influence via microblogs known as “Big Vs’’ because the accounts are ‘’verified’’ and popular. Authorities are now tightening the screws on these latest additions to the country’s already constricted information stream. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) . BEIJING (AP) — Bestselling Chinese author Murong Xuecun had nearly 4 million followers on his Twitter-like microblog. One day in May his account disappeared. So did his profiles on several other social media sites. No explanation was given, but one is starting to emerge. Many famous Chinese — from pop stars to scholars, journalists to business tycoons — have amassed substantial online followings, and these larger-than-life personalities don't always hew to the Communist Party line. Now Beijing is tightening its grip on China's already heavily restricted Internet by making influential microbloggers uncomfortable when they post material the government doesn't like. Murong, whose real name is H-- Q--, is among those whose microblog accounts have been silenced in recent months. Over the past two weeks, Internet censors have called microbloggers to meetings and state media have accused some of undermining socialism and promoting Western values through lies and negative news. It is a development that dims hopes China's new Communist Party leadership under Xi Jinping will tolerate more freewheeling discussion on the Internet and in the official media. Many of the online personalities call attention to social injustices and question government policies. Some are advocates for democracy, freedom of speech and human rights, and others are radicals who believe China has strayed from its communist roots. Popular microbloggers, including real estate mogul P--- S---, who helped force new government air quality standards through his campaign of posting daily pollution indexes, were asked at a meeting in Beijing to agree to seven standards: obey the law, uphold the socialist system, guard the national interest, protect individual rights, keep social order, respect morals and ensure factuality. ( end news) Well, trying to stop technology and stop people from using it, is like trying to stop people from having sex. It simply is not going to happen. People will find a way... or they will raise a lot of heck and force change, because no society gives up what gives them pleasure by any act of force, especially when it comes to using the mind and the faculties they naturally have for communication capability. |
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what a trip !!!.... one days leaders will learn that in order to be a good leader, one must equally so learn to follow. this is so lacking in the so called leaders of today.
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