{"id":42801,"date":"2009-07-28T22:25:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T05:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=42801"},"modified":"2009-07-28T22:59:56","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T05:59:56","slug":"from-chinese-twitterers-internet-supervision-officials-theory-of-local-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/07\/from-chinese-twitterers-internet-supervision-officials-theory-of-local-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"From Chinese Twitterers: Internet Supervision Official&#8217;s &#8220;Theory of Local Truth.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/07\/from-chinese-twitterers-internet-supervision-officials-theory-of-local-truth\/%e6%b2%b3%e8%9f%b9%e6%88%b4%e8%a1%a8\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42802\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/\u6cb3\u87f9\u6234\u8868.jpg\" alt=\"\u6cb3\u87f9\u6234\u8868\" title=\"\u6cb3\u87f9\u6234\u8868\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-42802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/\u6cb3\u87f9\u6234\u8868.jpg 500w, https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/\u6cb3\u87f9\u6234\u8868-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Despite the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/06\/chinese-censors-cut-off-twitter-hotmail-and-flickr\/\">Twitter has been blocked<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/07\/china-web-sites-close-amid-tightening-controls\/\">several similar China-based micro-blogging sites are inaccessible<\/a> in China, netizens are still finding ways to jump the Great Firewall to use Twitter, and Chinese-language tweets are still full of interesting comments and insight. For example, some news website editors just attended a routine briefing at the Internet Supervision Office in a major city, and soon afterward comments made by the officials leaked out on Twitter. Below are tweets about the meeting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201c\u6628\u5929\u7f51\u7ba1\u529e\u5f00\u4f1a\uff0c\u5927\u653e\u53a5\u8bcd\u3002\u58f0\u79f0\u7f51\u7edc\u6c11\u610f\u53ea\u662f\u4e00\u5c0f\u64ae\u4eba\u7684\u610f\u89c1\uff0c\u5c31\u7b973\u4ebf\u7f51\u53cb\u5168\u90e8\u652f\u6301\u7684\u4e8b\u60c5\u4e5f\u53ea\u662f\u4e00\u5c0f\u90e8\u5206\u4eba\u7684\u610f\u89c1\u3002 \u8fd8\u8bf4\u4e0a\u7f51\u7684\u4eba\u90fd\u662f\u6536\u5165\u4f4e\u53c8\u5e74\u8f7b\u7684\u4eba\uff0c\u65e0\u8db3\u8f7b\u91cd\u3002\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday the Internet Supervision Office held a meeting. [The official] gave lots of BS. He claims that <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/online-public-opinion\/\">online public opinion<\/a> is only the opinion of a small fraction of people. Even if 300 million netizens all support something, it is still an opinion of the minority. [vs 1.3 billion].  He also said that netizens are all young and have low incomes, and therefore are not important. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u7f51\u7ba1\u529e\u5b98\u5458\u53d1\u660e\u4e86\u201c\u5c40\u90e8\u7684\u771f\u5b9e\u201d\u7406\u8bba\u3002\u4ed6\u8bf4\uff0c\u4ece\u5c40\u90e8\u770b\uff0c\u53ef\u80fd\u662f\u771f\u5b9e\u7684\uff0c\u4f46\u4ece\u6574\u4f53\u770b\uff0c\u5219\u662f\u4e0d\u771f\u5b9e\u7684\u3002\u8b6c\u5982\u8bf4\uff0c \u5c40\u90e8\u53d1\u751f\u66b4\u4e71\uff0c\u8fd9\u4e2a\u662f\u771f\u5b9e\u7684\uff0c\u4f46\u662f\u4ece\u5168\u56fd\u6765\u770b\uff0c\u662f\u5b89\u5b9a\u7684\uff0c\u6240\u4ee5\u8bf4\u6211\u4eec\u56fd\u5bb6\u6709\u66b4\u4e71\u662f\u4e0d\u771f\u5b9e\u7684\u3002\u201c<\/p>\n<p>The official invented a &#8220;theory of local truth.&#8221;  He said: [certain phenomenon] may be true if you take a local perspective, but if you take the perspective of the whole, it is not true.  For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/riots\/\">riots<\/a> occur locally, it is true. But if you take the perspective of the whole country, [the society] is stable and peaceful; therefore to say our country has riots is not true.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8211; Another twitterer&#8217;s comment to the above: &#8220;The head of the Internet supervision office is a passionate idiot.&#8221; (&#8220;\u7f51\u7ba1\u529e\u7684\u4e00\u54e5\u5c31\u662f\u4e00\u4e2a\u70ed\u60c5\u6d0b\u6ea2\u7684\u50bb\u903c\u3002&#8221;)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To see how the above comment has been retweeted among Chinese twitterers, please click <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.ju690.com\/rt\/10844\/map\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fact that Twitter has been blocked and several similar China-based micro-blogging sites are inaccessible in China, netizens are still finding ways to jump the Great Firewall to use Twitter, and Chinese-language tweets are still full of interesting comments and insight. 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