No Free Speech: Twitter Crackdown In China

One man spent 15 days in a detention center. The police threatened anothers family. A third was chained to a chair for eight hours of interrogation. Their offense: posting on Twitter. The Chinese police in a sharp escalation of the countrys online censorship efforts are questioning and detaining a growing number of Twitter users even though the social media platform is blocked in China and the vast majority of people in the country cannot see it. The crackdown is the latest front in President Xi Jinpings campaign to suppress internet activity. In effect the authorities are extending their control over Chinese citizens online lives even if what they post is unlikely to be seen in the country.