"Chinese censors and opponents of the protests sweeping Hong Kong are engaging in a cat-and-mouse game with demonstrators and commentators in a bid to stop news of the unrest spreading online and, in particular, reaching the mainland... The intervention is beyond what is normal for the usually free-talking Hong Kong, even as people are used to Chinese censors scrubbing the Internet in the mainland when mass demonstrations erupt. On Sunday, users reported that Facebook Inc's photo sharing app Instagram was inaccessible on China's mainland. Chinese websites, including Baidu Inc's search engine and the Twitter-like Weibo Corp microblog, have set about deleting references to the Hong Kong demonstrations. Others have reported messages on Tencent Holdings Ltd's hugely popular WeChat messaging app being removed."
Monday, September 29, 2014
China Scrambles To Censor Social Media; Reuters via HuffingtonPost, 9/29/14
Paul Carsten, Reuters via HuffingtonPost; China Scrambles To Censor Social Media:
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