It seems that Sina.com and People’s Daily Internet bulletin board discussions about Zhao Ziyang have been shut down. But there is a huge number of comments to a short post about Zhao’s death on the popular blog platform Cnblog.org.<\/p>\n
Most of them say things like “a truly great man” and “free at last”. One commentor wrote that the “Three Represents represent foolishness, corruption and licentiousness”.<\/p>\n
The CNblog post is here<\/a> (almost all in Chinese). Thanks to Shanghai-based blogger Isaac Mao <\/a> for the link. He also notes an Open Net Initiative report<\/a> about Chinese blog providers’ keyword filtering software. The report looks at three blog platforms which filter users’ posts to eliminate references to an entirely predictable list of people and things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It seems that Sina.com and People’s Daily Internet bulletin board discussions about Zhao Ziyang have been shut down. But there is a huge number of comments to a short post about Zhao’s death on the popular blog platform Cnblog.org. Most … Continue reading