{"id":3610,"date":"2014-10-01T13:12:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T17:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=3610"},"modified":"2014-10-01T13:12:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T17:12:09","slug":"record-censorship-of-chinas-social-media-as-references-to-hong-kong-protests-blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/record-censorship-of-chinas-social-media-as-references-to-hong-kong-protests-blocked","title":{"rendered":"Record censorship of China’s social media as references to Hong Kong protests blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"

PUBLISHED : Monday, 29 September, 2014, 2:09pm<\/p>\n

UPDATED : Monday, 29 September, 2014, 6:14pm
\nPatrick Boehler
\npatrick.boehler@scmp.com<\/p>\n

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\nRiot police with shields guard a street in Admiralty around noon on Monday. Photo: David Wong
\nCensorship on Chinese social media has reached a new record this year as the mainland\u2019s editors of public debate rushed to quell conversations on Hong Kong\u2019s pro-democracy protests.<\/p>\n

The number of Weibo posts that could not be accessed increased five-fold between Friday and Sunday, according to Weiboscope, a censorship monitoring project at the University of Hong Kong\u2019s Journalism and Media Studies Centre.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a new record,\u201d said Dr Fu King-wa, the university\u2019s scholar behind the project. \u201cYou can see that the keywords [in censored posts] such as \u2018police\u2019, \u2018justice\u2019, they are all linked to protest in Hong Kong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fu\u2019s software periodically checks a sample of between 50,000 and 60,000 Weibo users with large followings in search of deleted posts.<\/p>\n

In the seven days up until Friday, he found that an average of about 32 messages had been deleted for every 10,000 posts.<\/p>\n

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On Saturday, when students staged a first protest, that number tripled to 98 posts.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, when organisers declared the beginning of the Occupy Central civil disobedience movement, some 152 posts were deleted per 10,000 messages, about five times the preceding week\u2019s average.<\/p>\n

 
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