When China’s second unmanned lunar probe, Chang’e II, was scheduled to blast off at 18:59:57 on October 1st 2010, 3 seconds before CCP mouthpiece CCTV’s Xinwen Lianbo began, the biggest highlight of this launch emerged — how would CCTV deal with the time conflict between the live broadcast of Chang’e’s flying to the moon and …
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Publish and be deleted
Below is a Global Times report, based on mine and some other Chinese netizen’s experience in China’s Internet censorship. By Zhang Lei He couldn’t take it anymore. When Hong Kong writer and poet Liao Weitang found his online photo album had been deleted by douban.com, he quit, leaving behind the 3,000 friends he had made over two years. “I had …