cencorship

The Department of Homeland Security had been involved in creating a group used to censor Americans on social networks..

Weibo, China’s approved social media site, went briefly offline; traffic was redirected to Freegate, a tool used to break through Internet censorship

The Communist Party of China emphasized its wish to control opinion in the media and online in recent official meetings.

Yang Hui, a 16-year-old arrested for posting web comments critical of local police in his hometown of Zhangjiachuan, Gansu Province, was released last midnight after seven days in detention.

Chinese online media company Sina says it has 500 million members on its Twitter-like platform called Weibo. But a recent report suggests the numbers include many fraudulent “zombie” accounts, meant to pad the books.