Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Information Control (信息控制)

梦鸽将向警方申请 查“秦火火谣言幕后真凶” (Authorities asked to investigate "real murder behind Qin Huohuo’s rumors")
Beijing News, August 21, 2013
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2013/08/21/279611.html

Related Twitter post
艾未未 Ai Weiwei@aiww, August 21, 2013
秦火火的言论无论如何离谱,也仅仅是属于个人传递的言论信息,并不比李白的文字夸张。人民日报,央视,新华社,环球,政权宣传系统的存在使命既(即)为蓄意伪造事实,扭曲真相,给人民洗脑。(However outrageous Qin Huohuo’s remarks are, they are just the expression and information transmitted by an individual. They are no more exaggerated than [poet] Li Bai’s words. The raison d’etre of the regime’s propaganda machine—People’s Daily, CCTV, Xinhua, Global Times—is the deliberate falsification of facts, distortion of truth, and brainwashing of the people.)
https://twitter.com/aiww/status/370113206305308672

山西百人因网络违法被查处 多人因网上造谣被拘 (Hundreds investigated for "violations" online, many criminally detained for spreading rumors)
China News Service, August 21, 2013
http://news.eastday.com/c/20130821/u1a7609020.html

王建琦:网上“寻衅滋事”罪是突破 (Crime of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" online is a breakthrough)
Legal Evening News, August 21, 2013
http://www.fawan.com.cn/html/2013-08/21/content_450850.htm

Beijing police detain online "rumour-mongers" in veiled warning to liberal opinion leaders
South China Morning Post, August 20, 2013
http://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1298276/beijing-police-detain-online-commentators-crackdown-rumours/