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China Censors Web To Curb Inner Mongolia Protests

Posted by timothy on from the call-it-inmo-for-short dept.

angry tapir writes "China is blocking mention of Inner Mongolia on Chinese microblogs and social networking sites, as part of an effort to clamp down on protests that broke out last week in the region. Two of the most popular microblog services operating in China no longer allow users to search for the term 'Inner Mongolia.' Sina's and Tencent's microblogs have 140 million and 160 million users, respectively."

2 of 103 comments (clear)

  1. China and US by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    At least the Chinese only censor the web (for national security) inside their own country. US on the other hand tries to censor it around the world for something little like downloading one mp3.

  2. Interesting, No mention of this in China Daily by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I did a search in China Daily http://search.chinadaily.com.cn/all_en.jsp?searchText=Inner+Mongolia+&searchword=Inner+Mongolia and these is no mention of this story at all. The entire story may very well be a fabrication by anti-revolutionary forces.

    I am in China, there really has been no mention of it. And you can be sure I posted Anonymously for this one.