Do not adjust your monitors: a Chinese government critic has won a court case against his ISP in Beijing for taking his website offline. Economics professor Hu Xingdou’s website was shut down by Beijing Xin Net for containing “illegal” content earlier this year, but a Daxing district court ruled last week that the ISP could not provide proof for its claims and ordered Xin Net to repay Hu’s service fees from the past two years.
Hu was apparently known for discussing government corruption and police brutality on his website—sensitive topics that have historically gotten the attention of Chinese Internet censors pretty quickly. When Hu wrote about China’s reeducation through labor system in March, however, Xin Net was apparently ordered from on high to close down Hu’s website.
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