China is sick and tired of celebrity gossip, so it’s deleting paparazzi social media accounts

China’s absolute control over its media has claimed an unlikely victim — the paparazzi.

Typically, the country’s censorship agency is most active in culling any content that my contradict the government’s political agenda.

But on Thursday, the Cyberspace Administration of China issued a notice listing several social media accounts that it deactivated. These included 19 different paparazzi and entertainment news outlets.

Beijing News reported that the sites’ various online properties across micro-blogging portal Weibo, and news aggregators Baidu and Toutiao, were gone.  Read more…

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