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President and CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping framed the internet as a battlefield for ideological control and appointed himself the head of a top-level internet security committee (see Introduction).<\/p>\n
The State Internet Information Office consolidated content restrictions with a harsh crackdown on rumors under newly appointed \u201cInternet Tsar\u201d Lu Wei (see Limits on Content and Violations of User Rights).<\/p>\n
A September 2013 judicial interpretation criminalized a range of online content viewed more than 5,000 times or shared by 500 internet users (see Violations of User Rights).<\/p>\n
High-profile businessmen were among hundreds detained or interrogated for supposedly abusing their online influence as controls on microblogs tightened (see Violations of User Rights).<\/p>\n
Legal activist Xu Zhiyong was jailed for four years for disturbing order and \u201cpublic spaces on the internet\u201d in April 2014 (see Violations of User Rights).<\/p>\n
Telecommunications were shut off in a restive area of Xinjiang; and Uighur academic Ilham Tohti was charged with antistate activity via his website (see Obstacles to Access and Violations of User Rights).<\/p>\n
A court in Hainan jailed an internet police officer for accepting bribes to issue takedown notices via instant message to web platforms in his jurisdiction (see Limits on Content).<\/p>\n
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