Weibo and the Great Firewall of China

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 20, 2013

Jason Q. Ng, 2013 Google Policy Fellow at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab and author of Blocked on Weibo: What Gets Suppressed on China's Version of Twitter (And Why) (New Press, August 2013), discusses his new book, which catalogues the many words and phrases censored by the Chinese government on the popular social media site Weibo.

Excerpt: Blocked on Weibo

From the book Blocked on Weibo. Copyright (c) 2013 by Jason Ng. Reprinted by permission of New Press. All rights reserved.

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