These screenshots were taken on January 7, 2013, and show that searches on Sina Weibo for the Chinese characters "South" (南) and "End" (末) returned no results, just a censorship notice.
This censorship coincided with a controversy regarding Southern Weekend's (南方周末) New Year's Greeting, which this blog has covered here:
The screenshots show that, as is standard practice at Sina Weibo, they have include several posts underneath the censorship notice. Generally, such posts have nothing to with the censored terms. Here, however, that appears not to be the case for two of the posts (highlighted in red). In these examples one of the posts is from June 6 from the Southern Weekend, and it reads:
Dear Readers: On January 3 this paper's New Year's Greeting was written by the editors to accompany the title of the "Pursuing the Dream" special topic, and the introductory remarks on the cover were drafted by a responsible person at this paper. Rumors regarding this spreading on the Internet are false. Because time was rushed, production mistakes were made, and there were errors in the text. We apologize for this to all readers.
致读者：本报1月3日新年特刊所刊发的新年献词，系本报编辑配合专题“追梦”撰写，特刊封面导言系本报一负责人草拟，网上有关传言不实。由于时间仓促，工作疏忽，文中存在差错，我们就此向广大读者致歉。
The other post was published later on January 6 by the Southern People Weekly (a sister publication of Southern Weekend), and consisted of an image of a person's mouth being covered by a hand and the person drawing a mouth on the hand, the text "Because this mouth is mine," and a quote from the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
历史将会记录，在这个社会转型期，最大的悲剧不是坏人的嚣张，而是好人的过度沉默。
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| Screenshot of the Southern People Weekly post. |
Southern People Weekly post URL: http://e.weibo.com/1653460650/zdgaJkVzn
