When Xin Zhoukan Chief Editor Xiao Feng (肖锋) posted this image of the Xin Kuai Bao front page on his Weibo, he probably wasn’t thinking of the top headline on Guangzhou real estate. It’s the story at the bottom that must have caught his eye: “Constricted Internet, Unfree News: This is America.” All Xiao had to say was “Xin Kuai Bao, you’re so bad” (新快报,你太坏了).
Rebecca MacKinnon’s new book Consent of the Networked deals with Internet censorship in China, the U.S. and beyond. Read what she has to say here.