socialmedian: Eye on Asia China Censorship 2.0 extends to twitters

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Eye on Asia China Censorship 2.0 extends to twitters - BusinessWeek

Submitted by Infodiva

Jul 29, 2008

Summary

The long arm of China’s censorship, it seems, now even extends even to Twitters. According to a video interview with prominent blogger Oiwan Lam, China’s thought police have monitored twitter postings of some of her friends, forcing them to limit access to their twitterings, thereby limiting their impact.

She points out, however that the government’s 50 Cent Party, estimated by David Bandurski in Far Eastern Economic Review to be 280,000 strong, has not been able to infiltrate twitters with the same success that it’s had with blogs, forums and chat rooms. Read the full article

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