How a Twitter account with a cat avatar took on Beijing
The unprecedented protests that swept China late last month, posing the biggest challenge to leader Xi Jinping’s authority since he came to power, had a peculiar focal point: a Chinese Twitter account with a cat avatar.
” Li would not even have been on Twitter – let alone be one of its most influential Chinese-language users – if censorship hadn’t become so suffocating on Weibo, China’s own Twitter-like platform. Li was among the earliest users of Weibo, dating back to 2010. “I was lucky to have witnessed that era – it was, in fact, pretty free,” he said.
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