Weibo Enforces New Wave of Speech Control

Tiffany Meier
By Tiffany Meier
September 4, 2021China in Focus
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Chinese social media platform Sina Weibo is coming down hard on free speech.

It announced Monday that anyone posting negative comments on official accounts for government offices or state-run media outlets would be considered to be “stirring up trouble.”

After the announcement, Weibo rapidly suspended nearly 160,000 accounts.

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