Tag: Fifty cent party

Chinese Censors Cut Off Twitter, Hotmail and Flickr (Updated)

Jane Macartney reports in the Times from Beijing: Two days before the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, China’s censors moved today to limit the access of the country’s increasingly tech-savvy population to vast swathes of the internet. The first victims were the rising population of tweeters, who use the micro-blogging service Twitter as a platform for humour — often s

June 2, 2009 7:52 AM

Word of the Week: Fifty Cents

Editor’s Note: The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created

April 4, 2012 12:00 PM

Challenging the 50 Cent Party

Global Voices’ Oiwan Lam highlights a recent thread on Sina Weibo, which began with user Zhang Nong’s illustr

March 7, 2012 9:10 PM

Fighting the 50 Cent Party's Commercial Counterparts

Political astroturfing by the “50 Cent Party” is a well known phenomenon in China, with legions of commenters

November 23, 2011 4:38 PM

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