Melissa Chan: China’s Netizens Pressure Beijing

Al Jazeera English reports on efforts by Ai Weiwei and other activists utilizing the Internet to make change:

In a country where media outlets are entirely state-controlled, growing numbers of Chinese people are going online to join a growing army of citizen journalists.

But China’s so-called “netizens” face a crack down at the hands of the authorities who see their internet activities as dangerous dissent.

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