MCLC: microblog commenting restored

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: kirk (denton.2 at osu.edu)
Subject: microblog commenting restored
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Source: NYT (4/4/12):
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/world/asia/china-microblog-commenting-res
tored.html

China: Microblog Commenting Restored
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

China¹s two biggest microblog sites resumed normal service on Tuesday
after a three-day ban on posting comments that drew complaints about
censorship amid the country¹s worst high-level political crisis in years.
The suspension of the comment function on Sina¹s Weibo.com
<http://weibo.com/> and Tencent¹s t.qq.com <http://t.qq.com/> followed a
flurry of rumors online about the downfall of a prominent Communist Party
figure, Bo Xilai. The authorities have closed a dozen Web sites and
detained six people for circulating rumors of a coup that rattled Beijing.
The two companies said in statements on their sites that the shutdown was
aimed at ³cleaning up² illegal and harmful information posted on some
microblogs but gave no details.