Weibo, and the army of censors that police the platform is proving to be a valuable tool when it comes to penetrating the veil of secrecy that the state censorship machine operates behind. For the last couple of years, institutions have been poking the Great Firewall with a stick to find out what makes it tick, and China has managed to create a market in exporting it's web monitoring tech.
Since May, ProPublica has been
collecting and archiving the images that have irked the powers that be, prompting them to be purged from the Chinese Internet. The interactive feature that they've put together allows you view the images by category and gives background on the whys and wherefores of the censorship.
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