Tencent Dajia

Tencent Dajia
Type of site
Opinion blog[1]
FoundedDecember 15, 2012
DissolvedFebruary 19, 2020
OwnerTencent
URLdajia.qq.com

Tencent Dajia[2] (directly translated as Tencent Master;[3] shortened to Dajia; 大家), also known as iPress,[4] was an opinion blog[5] founded by Tencent on December 15, 2012.[6] It was shut down on February 19, 2020.[7]

Jia Jia served as the editor-in-chief of Tencent Dajia.[8] The blog used to bring together many Chinese liberal intellectuals.[9]

History

On January 27, 2020, Tencent Dajia published an article titled The 50 days of Wuhan pneumonia: Chinese people are all paying the price of the death of media.[10] After this article was published, Dajia suddenly disappeared from the Internet.[11]

On February 19, 2020, an insider disclosed that Tencent had shut down "Dajia" at the request of the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission.[12]

References

  1. ^ Sarah Dai, Iris Deng (20 Feb 2020). "Tencent's opinion blog Dajia is shut down amid moves to tighten control over coronavirus critics". South China Morning Post.
  2. ^ "Freedom of Expression" (PDF). Congressional-Executive Commission on China. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  3. ^ Janet Marstine; Svetlana Mintcheva (14 July 2020). Curating Under Pressure: International Perspectives on Negotiating Conflict and Upholding Integrity. Routledge. pp. 203–. ISBN 978-0-429-63158-0.
  4. ^ Ou Ning (2020). Utopia in Practice: Bishan Project and Rural Reconstruction. Springer Nature. pp. 196–. ISBN 9789811557910.
  5. ^ "China's Medical Personnel Hard Hit by Coronavirus Amid Citywide Lockdowns". South China Morning Post. 2020-02-20.
  6. ^ "Tencent "Dajia" "was suicided"". DW News. Feb 20, 2020.
  7. ^ "China tightens up online information ecology". BBC.com. 2020-03-02.
  8. ^ "Party Propaganda Machine Wants 'Heartwarming' Tales From Virus-Hit Central China". Radio Free Asia. 2020-02-24.
  9. ^ "Interview with Jia Jia: The Cost of Media Death: Chinese People "Don't Know Who to Trust!". Radio Free Asia. 2020-02-24.
  10. ^ Oiwan Lam (21 February 2020). "Chinese censorship demonstrates it can afford the cost of 'the death of media'". Global Voices.
  11. ^ Javier C. Hernández (Mar 16, 2020). "As China Cracks Down on Coronavirus Coverage, Journalists Fight Back". The New York Times.
  12. ^ "Tencent's "Dajia" column was executed". Radio Free Asia. 2020-02-20.