The Ministry of Public Security in China said this week that 15,000 people have been arrested since the launch of a major anti-cybercrime operation called “cleaning the internet.”
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China blocks Instagram as Hong Kong protesters take over the streets
China has blocked Facebook’s photo-sharing site Instagram, as pro-democracy protesters flooded the Central financial district in Hong Kong on Monday and chronicled it all by flooding social media sites with #OccupyCentral hashtagged images. 
DuckDuckGoAway: China blocks privacy-oriented search engine
Getting selected as the default private search engine for Apple’s Safari browser has been a boon for young search engine DuckDuckGo. But it may well have tainted the search engine in the eyes of the Apple-leery Chinese government. 