Comments on: “Spring Breeze” Is China’s Latest Cleverly Titled Campaign Against The Internet http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/spring-breeze-is-chinas-latest-cleverly-titled-campaign-against-the-internet/ A Dollop of China Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:42:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: China Readings for April 2nd | Sinocism http://beijingcream.com/2012/04/spring-breeze-is-chinas-latest-cleverly-titled-campaign-against-the-internet/#comment-2568 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:12:44 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=1827#comment-2568 [...] » “Spring Breeze” Is China’s Latest Cleverly Titled Campaign Against The Int… – They have a way with words, don’t they? First there was “sweeping the yellow” — which in Chinese is the poetically sibilant saohuang – targeting organized prostitution. Then there was the Green Dam, a “filtering” software that one of China’s ministries wanted to require every locally produced computer to preinstall. And now? Spring Breeze. As Xinhua reports (in an article posted yesterday that has been removed from its website but remains on China Daily), “Beijing police on Saturday said they have arrested 1,065 suspects and deleted more than 208,000 ‘harmful’ online messages as part of an intensive nationwide crackdown on Internet-related crimes conducted since mid-February.” [...]

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