New day, new censorship hell in China. Earlier this week, several LGBT WeChat accounts run by university student groups found that they’d lost access. As perReuters, the company deleted these accounts without any specific reasons. If you tried to access any of these groups you’d find a notice saying they“had violated regulations on the management of accounts offering public information service on the Chinese internet.” A fathomable reason, indeed. According to a report fromAP, these accounts were taken down on Tuesday at 10PM....

It appears the ripple effect caused by recent riots in Egypt and Tunisia have reached China where authorities have blocked search results for the term “Egypt” on local micro-blogging platform Sina. Reported by theAssociated Presstoday, the Chinese government has blocked the word “Egypt” from the country’s wildly popularTwitter-like service, while coverage of the political turmoil has been tightly restricted in state media. Its worth noting that users of the platform from outside China are able to view results blocked from those inside China....

Local Chinese pressSouthern Weekendreports that China is building a ‘cloud computing’ Special Administrative Region (SAR), a special hi-tech industrial zone for tech companies and startups to have complete, uncensored access to the Internet. The Cloud SAR is a RMB 1 billion ($US 154m) project being built in Chongqing, south-western China. Perhaps the most noteworthy feature of this industrial zone is that it will be free from China’s infamous Internet-filtering system so as to enable tech companies to be on par with the developments around the world in cloud computing....

Another reason for our Chinese friends to celebrate as China officially declares a 10% reduction of import tariffs on computers, digital cameras, and other electronic equipment. Financial Tech Spotlightreports that China’s Ministry of Finance (MOF) announced to cut import tariffs on “information technology products,” which includes computers, storage devices, digital cameras, and its peripherals, parts and accessories, to 10 percent from the original 20 percent. This is China’s latest effort to increase imports and boost domestic consumption demand....

Xinhua Newsreports that China has established its very first association of Internet music operators and Internet music content providers in a bid to promote legal music online, according the country’s Ministry of Culture. Dubbed the Internet Music Industry Development Consortium, the Beijing-based coalition aims to promote a healthy development of the country’s Internet music industry — from the production, distribution and marketing of legal music content. It also offers guidance on intra-industry competition and dispute settlement, the report said....