Tencent Dajia

Tencent Dajia[2] (directly translated as Tencent Master;[3] shortened to Dajia), 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]

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

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.
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