China censored the names of Peng Shuai, one of China’s top tennis players, Zhang Gaoli, ex-vice premier who retired in 2018, and Kang Jie, Zhang’s wife, after Peng accused Zhang of sexual assault with help from Kang. Along with censoring the three names, anything related to this alleged scandal was removed and banned from China’s internet. A former internet censor who worked for China’s largest microblog platform Sina Weibo told The Epoch Times that he observed that Chinese censorship also banned “the universe is enormous,” and other sentences that Peng used in her online accusation. “[The Chinese regime] doesn’t want people to know about this sex scandal,” the former censor who said on Nov. 5. “It’s like freezing her (Peng). Make her become invisible to the public.” On Nov. 7, Peng Shuai’s social media accounts were still accessible, but all content was posted before November 2021. On China’s internet, when …
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