On September 22, 2014, the state sponsored China News Net published an article entitled “Tencent Editor Sentenced for Taking Money to Delete Posts for 500 to 1,000 Yuan Per Deletion” (腾讯编辑收钱删帖获刑 供称删1条收5百到1千元). Some excerpts:
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An investigation showed that, from August 2011 through August 2012, Mr. Wang used the facilities afforded by his job as an editor at the Tencent website to take 67,100 yuan and 127,350 yuan from two Beijing advertising companies and a Mr. Li (which cases are being handled separately), to help them delete online information from Tencent websites. In addition, from 2009 to May 2012, Mr. Wang did, in pursuit of inappropriate benefits, delete related online information and offer bribes of 469,500 yuan to Mr. He (whose case is being tried separately), a senior manager at the Internet Security Center for Beijing Sohu New Media Information Technology Company.
经一审查明，2011年8月至2012年8月期间，王某利用担任腾讯网站编辑的职务便利，分别收受北京两家广告传媒公司和李某(均另案处理)给予的67100元以及127350元，帮助其删除腾讯网的网络信息。此外，2009年至2012年5月期间，王某为牟取不正当利益，删除有关网络信息，向北京搜狐新媒体信息技术有限公司网安中心高级经理何某(另案处理)行贿469500元。Tencent is the operator of chat products QQ and Wechat (微信), and also operates a micro-blogging platform ("Weibo").
For more examples of censorship-for-cash on China's Internet, see:
- More Details Emerge of Internet Police Involved in Nationwide Money-For-Censorship Scheme
- State Media: Baidu Staff and Internet Police Profited by Deleting Negative Information
- Jailing of (Yet Another) Corrupt Internet Police Officer Shows How Censors Interact with Webmasters)
- Baidu Employees Arrested for Deleting Posts for Cash, Baidu Censors "Delete Posts"
- Caixin and Weibos Block Access to Report on Private/Public Cooperation in Internet Censorship
- Caixin Reposts Article on "Post Deletion Business" Minus Comments and References to Detained Internet Police Officers
