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Exposed locations, censorship and arrests: the struggle for freedom of expression on “Chinese Twitter”

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In a communist dictatorship, it is ironic that the country’s main social network has a stylized watchful eye as soon as possible – an involuntary reference to the slogan “Big Brother is watching you”, from the book “1984”, by George Orwell. ? Weibo, which is often described in the West as the “Chinese Twitter”, was launched in 2009 by Sina Corporation and today has more than 570 million users in China who find on the platform a contradictory channel: at the same time it is a space which gives voice to many disaffected people who cannot demonstrate or criticize the…

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