When something disappears from the Internet in China, netizens joke that it has been “river-crabbed,” a play on the euphemism “harmonized.” The River Crab Archive is a collection of blog post titles, weibo, and other materials deleted from their original sources on Chinese websites, either found by CDT or brought to our attention by outside projects. The editors have selected river-crabbed information of note from CDT Chinese’s ongoing compendium of the same name (河蟹档案).
The following deleted Weibo posts were selected by CDT from FreeWeibo.
@大鹏看天下: Tibet, China’s last Pure Land, is perhaps no longer worthy of the name. Before dawn on March 29, a landslide three kilometers long brought over two million cubic meters of debris on the Jiama mine, operated by China Gold Group’s Huatailong Co. on Mount Pulanggouzeri in Xigangsibu Village, Maizhokungar County. The first numbers out say 83 workers were buried. If this hadn’t happened, lots of people would have no idea Tibet is suffering this kind of destructive, unbridled development!
西藏，中国最后一块净土，或许早已名不符实。3月29日凌晨，西藏，墨竹工卡县扎西岗乡斯布村，普朗沟泽日山，中国黄金集团华泰龙公司甲玛矿区发生山体塌方事故，长度达3公里，塌方量约200余万方。初步统计，83名工人被埋。——没有这起事故，很多人压根儿还不知道，西藏正在遭受如此破坏性的疯狂开发~！
March 30, 2013 at 9:26 a.m. (via FreeWeibo)
No survivors have been found yet at the site, 45 miles east of Lhasa. Channel NewsAsia reports that the search is ongoing.
@牛刀: Xi Jinping‘s Chinese Dream has nothing to do with our Chinese Dream.
习近平的中国梦，和我们的梦没有任何关系。
March 29, 2013 at 2:51 a.m. (via FreeWeibo)
@田晃悠: Before, the bandits were deep in the mountains. Now, the bandits are in the system.
以前土匪在深山，现在土匪在机关。
March 29, 2013 at 8:30 p.m. (via FreeWeibo)
@基核肿部: Looking for Trouble: Why our Party wants to f**k Apple.
【作死】我党为何要日苹果。
March 29, 2013 at 11:11 a.m. (via FreeWeibo)
Among the theories about why the state media has gone after Apple recently, this Weibo user posits a secret code in the Beijing store’s phone number: it contains the date June 4, 1989.
Via CDT Chinese.
