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Poll: Most Chinese support Facebook block

July 10, 9:01 AMAsia Headlines ExaminerGlen Loveland
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BEIJING – A supermajority of Chinese netizens support “punishing” social networking site Facebook because users posted messages in support of rioters in Xinjiang, state media said.

A poll conducted on Huanqiu.com said that 81.7 percent of online respondents supported penalizing the website because users had formed groups in support of Uygur residents in the area, the People’s Daily Newspaper said.

Chinese authorities revealed earlier this week that they began blocking access to Facebook and Twitter, another social networking site, because they believed they could be utilized as a medium for communication amongst protestors. Although the situation in Xianjiang has now stabilized, the websites remain blocked in China.

 

 

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