On China’s heavily censored social media, a new target has emerged for internet police: blank sheets of white paper.

Platforms are rushing to remove images of people holding up the empty pages after protesters made them a symbol to express their frustration at China’s zero-Covid policies. 

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New Symbol of Protest in China Roils Censors: Blank White Papers

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On China’s heavily censored social media, a new target has emerged for internet police: blank sheets of white paper.  Platforms are rushing to remove images of people holding up the empty pages after protesters made them a symbol to express their frustration at China’s zero-Covid policies.   https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-symbol-of-protest-in-china-roils-censors-blank-white-papers-11669642676 #China Covid Curated

Jerome Cody

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Sam Mendoza

Numerous Chinese-language accounts, some dormant for months or years, came to life early Sunday and started spamming the service with links to escort services and other adult offerings alongside city names.

The result: For hours, anyone searching for posts from those cities and using the Chinese names for the locations would see pages and pages of useless tweets instead of information about the daring protests as they escalated to include calls for Communist Party leaders to resign.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/27/twitter-china-spam-protests/?outputType=amp

Numerous Chinese-language accounts, some dormant for months or years, came to life early Sunday and started spamming the service with links to escort services and other adult offerings alongside city names.  The result: For hours, anyone searching for posts from those cities and using the Chinese names for the locations would see pages and pages of useless tweets instead of information about the daring protests as they escalated to include calls for Communist Party leaders to resign.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/27/twitter-china-spam-protests/?outputType=amp

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