We had to sigh when we encountered this tweet from @danshoufuqiang:

Li Yi, the head [Ed: Minister] of the Chinese Ministry of Informational Industry stated: “To manage personal home pages, we’d have to shut them down first, then clean them up, and then slow allow them to come back online, one by one.” Fellow Netizens responded: “Thank God Lord Li is not the Minister of Public Security [Ed: Chinese police]… otherwise, they’d first detain billions, then interrogate them in turn, and finally allow them to come out back to freedom, one by one.”

(Original text: 工信部部长李毅中表示：“整理个人网站，就得把它先停掉，停掉以后进行清理，然后再一个一个恢复。”有网友表示：“幸好李大人没当公安部部长，否则他一定会先把十多亿人全抓起来进行审讯，然后再一个一个放出来。”)

Sad but true. Just a few days ago, papers around China report that all e-commerce sites in the Chinese mainland came “back to life” — that’s about 31 sites in all — in Xinjiang, where they had the July 5th riots last year.

Guilty until proven innocent. Is this Justice (or Justice 2.0) with Chinese characteristics?

Also of note: is this true “just” for websites based in China or is it true for sites the world over?

中國推友 @danshoufuqiang 就個人網站審查問題轉載中國工信部負責人之政策中，提到對於個網先關閉，再整理後再逐一「放回」。與此相關，前幾天新疆才剛剛恢復中國大陸三十一家電子商務網站，允許新疆網民訪問這些網站。