China is known worldwide not only as one of the global leaders in the economy, but also extremely rigid authoritarian censor. Once his victims were users of Twitter, which recently began to detain and interrogate for tweets in this social network.
Don’t forget that Twitter is blocked in China so-called Great Chinese firewall, along with Google, YouTube and Facebook, but many Chinese Internet users use VPN to overcome inhibitions.
According to the New York Times, the first fall under the distribution of the authors criticizing the actions of the government. Representatives of publications was found with nine Twitter users have been subjected to interrogation by the police. One of them Juan Cancana handcuffed to a chair handcuffed and interrogated for eight hours. After questioning, he was forced to give a written promise to stop using Twitter.
P’an Sedan— another victim of censorship who posted in the social network comic dissident multiplier. After a 20-hour interrogation, he had to remove a few posts. But even after his release not be left alone. The second time the pan Sidana was arrested and placed in a cell with ten other “violators” where they were forced to spend two weeks watching promotional videos.
Only in China there are about 3.2 million Twitter users, which constitutes approximately 0.4% of Internet users in China. According to them, this social network is one of the few places where Chinese people can participate in political debates and discussions.
Source — New York Times