{"id":392619,"date":"2019-01-13T01:32:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T00:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-china-using-twitter-history-to-arrest-interrogate-dissidents\/"},"modified":"2019-01-13T01:32:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T00:32:23","slug":"prison-planet-com-china-using-twitter-history-to-arrest-interrogate-dissidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-china-using-twitter-history-to-arrest-interrogate-dissidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb China Using Twitter History To Arrest, Interrogate Dissidents"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zero Hedge<\/strong><\/a>
January 12, 2019<\/p>\n

China\u2019s notorious crackdown on internet activity has resulted in the arrest, imprisonment and interrogation of people posting over Twitter, according to the\u00a0New York Times<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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A growing number of users who have been using the blocked platform through Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) have been swept up in a sharp escalation of Beijing\u2019s censorship effort, as authorities tighten their grip over Chinese citizens\u2019 online lives. There are an estimated 3.2 million\u00a0Twitter users in China \u2013 or around 0.4 percent of those who use the internet.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we give up Twitter, we are losing one of our last places to speak,\u201d said human-rights activist Wang Aizhong, who said the police told him to delete messages critical of the Chinese government.<\/p>\n

When he wouldn\u2019t,\u00a03,000 of h<\/strong>is tweets mysteriously disappeared<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Wang refused to take down his tweets. Then, one night last month while he was reading a book, his phone buzzed with text messages from Twitter that contained backup codes to his account.<\/p>\n

An hour later, he said, 3,000 of his tweets had been deleted.<\/strong> He blamed government-affiliated hackers, although those who were responsible and the methods they used could not be independently confirmed. \u2013NYT<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Wang\u2019s experience is far from unique \u2013 as The Times<\/em>\u00a0reports that one Twitter user\u00a0spent 15 days in a detention center, another person had their family threatened, and \u201ca third was chained to a chair for eight hours of interrogation<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beijing\u2019s war against internet freedom reveals its vision of internet control over the user of social media \u2013 while the CHinese government has stepped up their demands that Google and Facebook take down content deemed offensive despite the fact that both companies\u2019 sites are blocked in China.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, Facebook and Twitter suspended the accounts of exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui after he used the platforms to…<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Zero HedgeJanuary 12, 2019 China\u2019s notorious crackdown on internet activity has resulted in the arrest, imprisonment and interrogation of people posting over Twitter, according to the\u00a0New York Times. A growing number of users who have been using the blocked platform through Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) have been swept up in a sharp escalation of Beijing\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}