Chinese Netizens React to Twitter Appointment

Some Chinese netizens say Twitter’s recent appointment of a regional executive with a background in the country's military and state security apparatus has quashed any hope of maintaining a censorship-free micro-blogging platform. Since last week, when Kathy Chen was appointed Twitter's first managing director for China, Chinese users of the U.S. microblogging site have raised concerns over Chen's past links to the Chinese government and wondered if their freedom of speech on...

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