#censorship
content5| Xinhua News Agency | Two People Under Police Investigation for Spreading Rumors About a "Shanghai Lockdown" | |
| DATE | 2022/03/23 |
| LOCATION | Shanghai |
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Residents were arrested for spreading “lockdown” rumors, yet five days later, Shanghai effectively entered a full lockdown. Pandemic control has become a struggle over who gets to define the narrative in society. | |
| Shanghai Internet Rumor Control | These types of videos related to the pandemic in Shanghai are all rumors | |
| DATE | 2022/04/09 |
| LOCATION | Shanghai |
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Corresponding to the grid-based community management, the strict crackdown on online public opinion persisted throughout the pandemic. | |
| State media's frequent Weibo trending topics countered by netizens' critical comments as a form of "challenging authority" | |
| DATE | 2022/04/18 |
| LOCATION | Internet |
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Hashtags such as “lalaland,” “call me by your name,” and “sneaky joy/Zhao sneaky joy” have all been censored, and even the first line of China’s national anthem, “#Arise, ye who refuse to be slaves,” has been subject to censorship on Weibo. | |
| Anti-lockdown banners appear in Shanghai; reports say the person who put them up has been taken away for investigation. | |
| DATE | 2022/04/17 |
| LOCATION | Huashan Road, Jing'an District, Shanghai |
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Multiple anti-lockdown banners appeared on Huashan Road in Shanghai. | |
| Chinese netizens mint lockdown-era phenomena into NFTs to fight censorship | |
| DATE | 2022/05/06 |
| LOCATION | Internet |
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As of May 2, at least 786 items related to “Voices of April” had appeared on OpenSea, the world’s largest NFT trading platform. | |