Internet users go after Beijing officials

Another internet lynch party is on its way as internet users take on the local Beijing officials who are accused of having cause the deadly incident at the Latern Festival that caused the death of 37 people, mostly children and women, reports the South China Morning Post.
The incident was treated differently at different chatroom, the paper reports. The chat rooms of Tsinghua University and of the official newswire Xinhua allowed their users to discuss the issue freely, while the commercial sites, Sohu.com and Sina.com stopped their users from discussing the issue.
Under fire is the newly appointed mayor of Beijing Wang Qishan, who was called in after his predecessor had to resign after the SARS cover up.

Interesting to note is also that articles of the South China Morning Post are available for free again, although through an indirect source. The SCMP has asked money for access to its site over the past few years, making access very hard for incidental visitors of their site.