China tightens hold on netizens amid privacy, free speech issues
Chinese social media giants start publishing users' locations, scrutinise online use of words
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China has been tightening its hold on netizens, with Chinese social media giants publishing their users' locations and banning the use of similar-sounding words meant to skirt censorship.
Microblogging platform Weibo said on July 13 that it will step up efforts to clean up the use of homophones that are meant to "spread unhealthy or illegal messages".