{"id":35978,"date":"2009-03-18T22:15:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T05:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=35978"},"modified":"2009-03-18T22:26:22","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T05:26:22","slug":"oiwan-lam-goodbye-grass-mud-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/03\/oiwan-lam-goodbye-grass-mud-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Oiwan Lam: Goodbye Grass Mud Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/tag\/internet-police\">river crabs<\/a>&#8221; are cracking down on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/tag\/grass-mud-horse\/\">grass-mud horses<\/a>&#8221; now.  Oiwan Lam <a href=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/2009\/03\/18\/china-goodbye-grass-mud-horse\/\"><strong>writes in the Global Voices Online<\/strong><\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Last week the <a href=http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/2009\/03\/02\/china-more-on-grass-mud-horse>story of Grass Mud Horse<\/a> has traveled to the U.S.A via <a href=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/12\/world\/asia\/12beast.html?_r=1&#038;hp>the New York Times<\/a> and re-imported back to China with <a href=http:\/\/feeds.gothamistllc.com\/click.phdo?i=108be9076990647f9fa4d588988550cstrong>new ideas for reproduction<\/a>, such as the marriage of two legendary creatures: Grass Mud Horse and FaKe Squid into FaKe Mud Horse.<\/p>\n<p>As imagethief pointed out, the New York Times may have <a href=http:\/\/news.imagethief.com\/blogs\/china\/default.aspx>over-interpreted the Grass Mud Horse<\/a> for criticizing the repressive censorship mechanism. Instead of mechanical blocking, there are some other soft tactics (summarized by <a href=http:\/\/www.zonaeuropa.com\/200903a.brief.htm#002>&#8220;The Seven Possible Fates Of An Internet Post&#8221;<\/a>), and the Chinese censor team is ready to show how with its latest notice about &#8220;Grass Mud Horse&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The administration&#8217;s notice to forum managers has been tweeted and re-tweeted many times in twitter:<\/p>\n<p>\u8349\u6ce5\u9a6c\u76f8\u5173\u5185\u5bb9\u4e0d\u5f97\u8fdb\u884c\u4efb\u4f55\u63a8\u8350\uff0c\u4e0d\u5f97\u7092\u4f5c\uff08\u5305\u62ec\u00d7\u00d7\u795e\u517d\u3001\u6cb3\u87f9\uff09\uff0c\u70b9\u540d\u6279\u8bc4\u732b\u6251\u3002\u76ee\u524d\u8be5\u4e8b\u4ef6\u5df2\u4e0a\u5347\u5230\u653f\u6cbb\u9ad8\u5ea6\uff0c\u5883\u5916\u5a92\u4f53\u7092\u4f5c\u8be5\u4e8b\u4ef6\u4e3a\u7f51\u6c11\u4e0e\u653f\u5e9c\u5bf9\u6297\u3002<\/p>\n<p>One shouldn&#8217;t promote any content related with Grass Mud Horse, don&#8217;t turn it into hyperbole (including xx legendary creatures and river crab). It names and criticizes mop.com. The issue has elevated into a political level, overseas media has turned it into a hyperbole of netizen and government confrontation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;river crabs&#8221; are cracking down on &#8220;grass-mud horses&#8221; now. 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