SupChina and What’s on Weibo get blocked behind China’s Great Firewall

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Chinese censors evidently had some time on their hands at the end of last week, taking the opportunity to banish both SupChina and What’s on Weibo behind the Great Firewall.

Both sites are English-language, foreign-run news outlets that publish stories on various aspects of China, some of which have evidently touched a nerve in Beijing. The two websites join such illustrious publications as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and, of course, Shanghaiist on the Net Nanny’s naughty list.

On Friday, SupChina released a statement on Twitter informing its followers of the news. Editor in chief Jeremy Goldkorn writes that the block was an unavoidable eventuality of “doing honest news coverage about China.”

“We have always known this would come, and now it has, we can stop worrying about the inevitable,” Goldkorn writes, noting that SupChina’s WeChat account and podcast streams have not been affected by the block.

Meanwhile, What’s on Weibo founder Manya Koetse lamented that her website’s followers in mainland China will…