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"Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mech..." — Rebecca MacKinnon
Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mechanism to hold authorities accountable for wrongdoing - at least sometimes - without any actual political or legal reforms having taken place. Major political power struggles and scandals are no longer kept within elite circles.
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