Some in China are questioning the role that online speech plays in inciting real-world violence.
BEIJING - The video posted in 2023 on Chinese social media showed more than 100 Japanese children, supposedly at an elementary school in Shanghai, gathered in their schoolyard.
Internet companies deploy an army of censors. Private citizens censor themselves, knowing that what they post can get their social media accounts deleted or, worse, land them in jail. One called the incident the equivalent of Chernobyl, the 1986 nuclear accident, and said it had left most of Ohio unliveable. The theory claimed that the US government and the mainstream media were trying to cover it up, similar to what happened with Chernobyl.
After Mr Liu wrote several articles challenging what was being said, someone reported him to the internet regulator in Shanghai.
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