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James Griffiths is a Senior Producer for CNN International and author of"The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet."After apparently censoring a popular hashtag related to LGBT issues, the Chinese social network restored access Tuesday following a major backlash from users. That backlash saw Weibo filled with rainbow flags, while related hashtags attracted millions of views and posts.
— 吕频Lü Pin April 15, 2019 Great FirewallWhile there are some hard and fast rules for what content is banned in China — pornography, separatism, terrorism, for example — for the most part companies are expected to regulate themselves. There is no comprehensive blacklist of sensitive topics, so companies, and their legions of censors, must second-guess whether individual posts or discussions are to be allowed, based on their interpretation of public pronouncements and campaigns.
— Christian 马思潭 April 16, 2019 The general lack of certainty about what they're supposed to police often leads companies to err on the side of caution, fearing potentially ruinous punishments for failing to censor something they should have. Last year, Quora-style question and answer service Zhiyu was removed from app stores for a week"due to lax supervision and the spread of illegal information," according to a leaked censorship directive.
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