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China’s Microblogs Facing New Restrictions (Updated)

Cara Anna of the Associated Press reports from Beijing: The country’s top microblogs either are down for maintenance or now display a “beta” tag to indicate they are in a testing phase, though they have been operating for months. Users worry that the explanations are cover-ups for further restraints on speech in China, where Twitter itself is blocked. They have deluged Chinese cyb