Sina Weibo Punishes 103,673 Accounts For Violating Government Rules
China’s Twitter, Sina Weibo, “closed or in some way punished” a whopping 103,673 accounts on the social media network for not being in compliance with the government’s online discourse rules, Tech in Asia reports.
Looks like suppression of online speech is alive and well in China.
The rules are titled Seven Bottom Lines. They include: the legal bottom line, the socialist system bottom line, the national interest bottom line, the legitimate interest of citizens bottom line, the public order bottom line, the moral bottom line, and the authenticity of information bottom line.
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