Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/06/10/china-censors-weibo-for-inte.html
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“interfering with online communication orders, disseminating illegal information, and other problems”
AKA, “spreading the truth in China”. You’d think Weibo would know better than to do that.
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Than heavens the free market [cough] takes care of this in the USA. https://www.cyberscoop.com/facebook-foreign-interference-state-media/
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Ah, whataboutism, that evergreen of topics that criticise China.
And yeah, I have no problem with a privately-owned platform deciding to flag posts from state propaganda outlets like RT and CGTN that disguise themselves as unbiased news. I only wish they’d extend the policy to domestic party propaganda outlets like Fox and OANN that also pretend they’re “fair and balanced”.
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