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China mutes law professor on social media after cybersecurity ID plan criticism
Before the switch-off, Lao Dongyan compared online attacks of her views to the Cultural Revolution’s big character posters.
In a long Weibo post on July 31, Lao likened the proposed cybersecurity system to the health code app introduced during the pandemic and said it would act like “a monitor for everyone’s online activities”. Lao – who also doubted the need for a standardised network identity, with more than a billion internet users in China already registered under the real-name cyber policies introduced in 2011 – quickly became a target for supporters of the plan. The wiped posts included Lao’s response to online comments about a brutal attack in the northern Chinese city of Tangshan in June 2022, when a group of men assaulted four women at a barbecue restaurant.
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