From Chinese Twitterers: Internet Supervision Official’s “Theory of Local Truth.”

Despite the fact that Twitter has been blocked and several similar China-based micro-blogging sites are inaccessible in China, netizens are still finding ways to jump the Great Firewall to use Twitter, and Chinese-language tweets are still full of interesting comments and insight. For example, some news website editors just attended a routine briefing at the Internet Supervision Office in a major city, and soon afterward comments made by the officials leaked out on Twitter. Below are tweets about the meeting:

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Yesterday the Internet Supervision Office held a meeting. [The official] gave lots of BS. He claims that online public opinion is only the opinion of a small fraction of people. Even if 300 million netizens all support something, it is still an opinion of the minority. [vs 1.3 billion]. He also said that netizens are all young and have low incomes, and therefore are not important.

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The official invented a “theory of local truth.” He said: [certain phenomenon] may be true if you take a local perspective, but if you take the perspective of the whole, it is not true. For example, riots occur locally, it is true. But if you take the perspective of the whole country, [the society] is stable and peaceful; therefore to say our country has riots is not true.

- Another twitterer’s comment to the above: “The head of the Internet supervision office is a passionate idiot.” (“??????????????????”)

To see how the above comment has been retweeted among Chinese twitterers, please click here.