{"id":54172,"date":"2016-02-28T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=54172 "},"modified":"2016-02-28T21:58:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T21:58:00","slug":"54172-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=54172","title":{"rendered":"China internet\uff1a Ren Zhiqiang\\&#8217;s account blocked after Xi criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">28 February 2016<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p><div>&nbsp;<\/div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mzzg.org\/UploadCenter\/ArticlePics\/2016\/8\/2016228_88487998_88487995.jpg\" alt=\"2016228_88487998_88487995.jpg (660&#215;371)\" \/><br \/><div>&nbsp;<\/div>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Ren Zhiqiang has more than 30m followers<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">China<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> has shut down the microblogging accounts of outspoken former property tycoon Ren Zhiqiang after he criticised President Xi Jinping.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Cyberspace Administration of China accused Mr Ren of publishing &#8220;illegal messages that had a bad impact&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Mr Ren had written that state media were funded by taxpayers and should serve them, not the Communist Party.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">President Xi urged state media early this month to follow party lines in their reporting.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">China<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> has been criticised for its strict internet regulations, including blocking major sites and censoring posts.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But Mr Xi has argued that countries had the right to choose how to develop and regulate the internet.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Jump media playerMedia player helpOut of media player. Press enter to return or tab to continue.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Almost 40 journalists are currently in prison in China for work posted online, the advocacy group Reporters Without Borders says.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Ren Zhiqiang is a retired top property developer with more than 30 million online followers.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">His Weibo blog last week attacking Mr Xi had been criticised by state media &#8211; one referring to him as referring &#8220;anti-Communist Party&#8221; thoughts.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Internet users had to stick to the law and the fundamentals of socialism, said Jiang Jun, a spokesman for the Cyberspace Administration of China.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">China has also unveiled new rules &#8211; coming into effect on 10 March &#8211; banning foreign media companies and foreign joint ventures from distributing content online without prior approval by Beijing officials.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">China<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8216;s &#8216;great firewall&#8217;<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">A man talks on an iPhone in Beijing, 24 July 2013Image copyrightReuters<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Beijing keeps the world&#8217;s largest online population under tight controls<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Access to the BBC&#8217;s English-language website was temporarily blocked last year<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Virtual Private Network (VPN) systems are among the latest online targets<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">This year web users were banned from posting under famous people&#8217;s names<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><br \/><\/p><div>&nbsp;<\/div>  <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-35682030\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For detail please visit here<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;The Cyberspace Administration of China accused Mr Ren of publishing &quot;illegal messages that had a bad impact&quot;.Mr Ren had written that state media were funded by taxpayers and should serve them, not the Communist Party.&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}