At around 5:00 am on October 26 (Beijing Time), the New York Times Published an article entitled "
Billions in Hidden Riches for Family of Chinese Leader" (
总理家人隐秘的财富). An excerpt:
Many relatives of Wen Jiabao, including his son, daughter, younger brother and brother-in-law, have become extraordinarily wealthy during his leadership, an investigation by The New York Times shows. A review of corporate and regulatory records indicates that the prime minister’s relatives, some of whom have a knack for aggressive deal-making, including his wife, have controlled assets worth at least $2.7 billion.
The following screenshots show examples of new censorship that various websites instituted within 24 hours of the article's publication.
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Sina Weibo began censoring "NYT" |
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Sogou began censoring "New York Times" (纽约时报) |
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Qihoo began censoring "Wen Jiahong" (温家宏 - Wen Jiabao's brother) |
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Youdao began censoring the Chinese title of article |
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Baidu actually stopped restricting search results for "New York Times" (纽约时报) to a white list, but . . . . . |
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. . . at the same time Baidu did something that made search results for the Chinese title of the New York Times article "disappear." On October 26 Baidu said it could find over 1 million results. On October 27 it said it could not find any results. |