How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism But Silences Collective Expression
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...Our rules followed the principle articulated in footnote 20 of King et al. (2014) of trying to avoid influencing the system that we were studying, which has the added advantage of reducing the chance for bias....
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...We first explain these results by generalizing prior findings on (human) censorship and (automated) filtering, all led by the same propaganda department in the same government as the 50c party (King et al. 2013, 2014)....
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...Data and information necessary to replicate the results in this article appear in King et al. (2017). appearing....
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...As of December 2012, netizens were posting approximately 100 million messages a day, or 36.5 billion a year, on Sina Weibo alone (Zhao et al. 2014), which is one of at least 1,382 known social media sites (King et al. 2013)....
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...2014), which is one of at least 1,382 known social media sites (King et al. 2013). In our data, the ratio of Sina Weibo posts to all posts is 1.85, meaning that an estimate of the total number of posts on all platforms is (1.85 × 36.5 billion =) 67.5 billion. However, this requires the strong assumption that 50c party members use specific commercial social media platforms in the same proportions as the entire user population. We therefore used the detailed survey from iiMedia Research Group (2014) and calculated the ratio of total posts to Sina Weibo posts to be 2....
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...We begin with selective censorship, which involves removing some content from online platforms, while leaving other forms content alone; King et al. (2013) document this type of activity using Chinese data....
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...Note, however, that the Internet ceases to be a free environment for political debate whenever users are confronted with censorship, such as occurs in authoritarian regimes (King et al., 2012)....
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...Protests in East Germany, Eastern Europe, and most recently the Middle East have all preceded regime change (Ash, 2002; Lohmann, 1994; Przeworski et al., 2000)....
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