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China Snuffs Out Last Online Remnants of the NY Times

At The Diplomat, David Dawson reports that the Weibo accounts of the New York Times and several of the paper’s employees have been deleted. The New York Times’ English- and Chinese-language web portals have been blocked in China since October 2012, following the paper’s publication of an exposé on the wealth accumulated by the family of former premier Wen Jiabao. Inquiries with Sina Weibo regarding the reason for the shutdown were answered with

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