‘Why would he take such a risk?’ How a famous Chinese author befriended his censor

Online dissent is a serious crime in China. So why did a Weibo censor help me publish posts critical of the Communist party?It is 2013. For four full months, Liu Lipeng engages in dereliction of duty. Every hour the system sends him a huge volume of posts, but he hardly ever deletes a single word. After three or four thousand posts accumulate, he lightly clicks his mouse and the whole lot is released. In the jargon of censors, this is a “total pass in one click” (一键