Twitter Users in China Face Detention and Threats in New Beijing Crackdown
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/business/china-twitter-censorship-online.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
One man spent 15 days in a detention center. The police
threatened another's family. A third was chained to a chair
for eight hours of interrogation. Their offense: posting on
Twitter. The Chinese police, in a sharp escalation of the
country's online censorship efforts, are questioning and
detaining a growing number of Twitter users even though the
social media platform is blocked in China and the vast
majority of people in the country cannot see it. The
crackdown is the latest front in President Xi Jinping's
campaign to suppress internet activity. In effect, the
authorities are extending their control over Chinese citizens'
online lives, even if what they post is unlikely to be seen in
the country.
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