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A Weibo supervisor was exposed for wrongfully censoring citizens Originally published on Global Voices A screenshot from a Weibo supervisor's monthly report. The slogan says: ‘collective supervision to clean up Weibo’. ‘Why am I being censored?’ Many Chinese citizens have shared this question online after receiving a notification from administrators of online platforms including Weibo, WeChat and Douban, informing them that their content has been flagged as harmful or illegal and has been removed. Yet, no one has explained exactly why or how their materials were harmful or illegal. Recently a ‘Weibo supervisor’ named Ji Haoyang wrote a series of...
