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Two men use their laptops at a cafe in Beijing on Nov. 2, 2012. A government-backed campaign to assert greater control over social media has lead to increased self-censorship by some of China's most influential bloggers, chilling political discourse in the country. Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images
Beijing closed multiple accounts of a popular Chinese comic blogger “SaiLei Three Minutes,” who claimed to interpret current affairs involving politics and history within three minutes.
A visit to his Weibo account shows the message, “The user is currently banned for violating relevant laws and regulations.”
