Authorities in China issued new rules this summer in order to tidy up online discourse in the country. These new guidelines are called the Seven Bottom Lines. Today, state news agency Xinhua reports that more than 100,000 accounts on Sina Weibo have been closed or in some way punished for flouting these rules.
As outlined by The Wall Street Journal, the “bottom lines” are:
The legal bottom line
The socialist system bottom line
The national interest bottom line
The legitimate interest of citizens bottom line
The public order bottom line
The moral bottom line
The authenticity of information bottom line Read more…
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