Baidu and Other Search Engines Begin Censoring "Tuo Zhen"

These screenshots show that between January 3 and January 8 2013, Baidu began censoring search results for "Tuo Zhen" (庹震) and shut down its Tuo Zhen Tieba forum.

Tuo is currently the director of the Guangdong province Communist Party Propaganda Department, which oversees publication of the Southern Weekend (南方周末), which has been in the news recently:

• January 5: http://blog.feichangdao.com/2013/01/websites-delete-articles-block.html
• January 6: http://blog.feichangdao.com/2013/01/baidu-and-other-search-engines-join.html
• January 7: http://blog.feichangdao.com/2013/01/global-times-netease-and-sina-weibo.html

Other search engines were also censoring searches for "Tuo Zhen" on January 8, including Sogou and Qihoo.