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https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002976/weibos-most-influential-users-can-now-silence-their-critics
Beginning Thursday, Weibo accounts with more than 100,000 followers will have the ability to silence their critics: If you leave a comment on a post from one of these accounts, and that account blocks you, you’ll be banned from commenting for three days.
The Weibo Administrator account announced the trial function on Wednesday. “If a user’s comment is deleted by a blogger, and their account is also blocked by the blogger, their comment function will be suspended throughout the site for three days,” reads the company’s statement, which also clarifies that affected users will still be able to retweet and write their own posts.
Weibo says the temporary commenting ban function will first be available to bloggers with over 100,000 followers for a trial phase, and then, depending on feedback and results, it will gradually expand to verified users, paying members, and finally all users. According to Weibo’s most recently announced figure in August, the site has over 430 million monthly active users — more than the combined population of the U.S. and the U.K.
More details are available in Weibo's FAQ.
[NOTE: Links are to pages written in Chinese or may require a login. Google Translate may prove useful. --Ed.]
(Score: 2) by exaeta on Friday September 28 2018, @02:09PM (1 child)
This tends to have the opposite effect on voters though. My experience is that people who grow up in strict households tend to be more lenient. It's a documented phenomena as well. I suspect we can extend this to speech, humans desire balance. If they perceive the world as censored, they will seek out speech freedom.
The Government is a Bird
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 28 2018, @02:41PM
Do you have the cite? Just curious about the psychology behind my own political drift to the left the older I get.