{"id":6679,"date":"2006-03-25T21:40:18","date_gmt":"2006-03-26T04:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/03\/25\/the-county-mayor-netizen-without-any-sock-puppets-o%c2%bac-you-shanshan-ai%c2%b1aeaaea\/"},"modified":"2006-03-25T21:40:18","modified_gmt":"2006-03-26T04:40:18","slug":"the-county-mayor-netizen-without-any-sock-puppets-o%c2%bac-you-shanshan-ai%c2%b1aeaaea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/03\/the-county-mayor-netizen-without-any-sock-puppets-o%c2%bac-you-shanshan-ai%c2%b1aeaaea\/","title":{"rendered":"The County Mayor Netizen Without Any Sock Puppets \u00d4\u00ba\u00e7 You Shanshan (\u00c1\u00ee\u00b1\u00c1\u00e8\u00e4\u00c1\u00e8\u00e4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/images\/_zm_20060323_xw_tb_200603230004_291503-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/images\/_zm_20060323_xw_tb_200603230004_291503-1.jpg','popup','width=350+20,height=233+20,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/images\/_zm_20060323_xw_tb_200603230004_291503-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"150\" alt=\" Zm 20060323 Xw Tb 200603230004 291503-1\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"color:#0e0e0f;\">From The Southern Weekend <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanfangdaily.com.cn\/zm\/20060323\/xw\/tb\/200603230004.asp\">(in Chinese<\/a><span style=\"color:#0e0e0f;\">), translated by EastSouthWestNorth <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zonaeuropa.com\/20060325_1.htm\">(link):<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Hello to everybody!  I am Fu Rong, the county mayor of the People&#8217;s Government of Lingao county.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The county mayor of Lingao county, Hainan province, used this as the introduction in his headlong plunge into an Internet forum.<\/p>\n<p>It is nothing new that government officials get on the Internet to read about current affairs, and they even &#8220;submerged under water&#8221; (anonymously and\/or without announcing their presence) at the various Internet forums.<\/p>\n<p>But such a direct public disclosure of identify must be the first in history of Chinese BBS history, according to the chief-editor of the famous Tianya Club forum.<\/p>\n<p>This county mayor who went on the Internet to chat without using a sock puppet experienced a level of government-citizen interaction hitherto unseen.<\/p>\n<p>Is this person really a county mayor?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Southern Weekend (in Chinese), translated by EastSouthWestNorth (link): &#8220;Hello to everybody! 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