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The party, the people and the power of cyber-talk
DO YOU know how serious a mistake you've made? Yan Yuanzhang recalls an official asking him not long ago. Mr Yan had been summoned to Beijing's Internet Propaganda Management Office to talk about his websites. They were causing, he was told, the Communist Party to lose face. They were providing material that foreign media could use to attack China. They were illegal and must be closed down within 24 hours.
Farewell, worker comrades, wrote Mr Yan in notices posted that day on his China-based websites, China Workers Net and Communist Net. Visitors could hear a lugubrious rendition of the communist anthem, the Internationale, through their computer speakers as they read. Whether there is any hope of starting again, heaven knows. He says now that he will relaunch one of the two sites on May 1st, this time on a server in Taiwan.
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