“Teacher” Li Ying’s efforts show how the internet can still circumvent censorship even in one of the most heavily controlled media environments in the world.
Li’s emergence reflects the power the internet still has to circumvent censorship even in one of the most heavily controlled media environments in the world.
It also underlines the dangers. Li, who has been using a pseudonym online — Teacher Li — decided to go public with his real name and photos for this article, in an effort to protect himself from reprisals by Chinese authorities who have begun to intimidate his family. Li sees his role as a citizen journalist as an accident of history. After moving to Italy in 2015 to study fine art, he began publishing short comedy sketches on the microblog Weibo about love and life. People started sending him their own stories, asking him to publish them and get input from other users., and he gained more followers and more submissions. Li’s Weibo account was shut down 52 times, but each time he started a new one, he regained his following.
“People got used to telling me things,” he said, describing his role as similar to that of a “hole in a tree” where people shout their secrets. Moreover, it was that people did not trust the legal system. “They don’t believe the law works, so they have to ask for help online, for people to help publicize their case to get attention.”
Unable to open more accounts, he moved his efforts to Twitter this past spring. A few months later in November, he began tweeting about
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