Thursday, March 12, 2015

China's Major Social Media Platforms Censor Searches for "Coup"

These screenshots were taken on March 4, 2014, and show that Baidu was telling users who searched for PostBar (Tieba 贴吧) forums on "Coups" (政变):
Apologies, in accordance with relevant laws, regulations, and policies, this forum cannot be opened at this time.
抱歉,根据相关法律法规和政策,本吧暂不开放。
Sina Weibo, and Tencent Weibo were telling their users:
In accordance with relevant laws, regulations, and policies, search results have not been displayed.
根据相关法律法规和政策,搜索结果未予显示 。



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