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I got the most ah-mayzing canned message from Sina Weibo's glorious legality enforcers a couple of days ago, informing me that some people who had been saying too much online had been, erm, prevented from continuing to do so, and warning me not to follow the same path.  <!--more-->

<img src="http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/20120428-INLINE.jpg" alt="Chinese Reading Material: Free Advanced Chinese Lessons" title="Learn to Read Chinese: Read Advanced Chinese Essays" width="100" height="100" class="imgborder alignleft" />In this note, which I presume everyone on Sina Weibo got, I was warned not to listen to all the "political rumors" that are being spread - rumors which I hadn't heard about until I got the warning and will now trot off to Google. We often hear about how this kind of thing happens in China - now's your chance to read it straight from the horse's mouth. 

For those of you just tuning in, Sina Weibo (新浪微博 - you'll see those words a couple of times in the post) is China's most popular Twitter-esque microblog platform. 微博 [pinyin]wei1 bo2[/pinyin] means "microblog", 新浪 is the particular microblog platform (China has several competing microblogs, as opposed to just the one Twitter).

As you read through this, bear in mind that the words in "quotes" are usernames, hence the strange collection of characters.

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