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Microblogs 微博 BETWEEN August 20th and 23rd Beijing police arrested several microbloggers on a chargenormally reserved for rabble-rousers on the streets: that of creating a disturbance. Theywere nabbed, police claim, for spreading false rumours. Earlier in the month two influentialmicroblogging activists were also arrested in east-central China. Each had accused officialsof wrongdoing. An online crackdown is under way on those who do not follow theCommunist Partys line. 8月20日至23日，北京警方已煽动民众为名逮捕了几个微博用户。警方声称他们被捕的原因是散播谣言。这个月早些时候，中国中东部两个有影响力的微博活跃用户也被逮捕。他们都曾指控政府官员违法。一场网络行动正在打击不与共产党统一战线的人。 Yet those arrested are small fry. Of greater concern to authorities are the so-called Big Vs,popular microbloggers on Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo, the two leading microblogs, whohave been verified not to be writing under a pseudonym . Many Big Vs have millions of followers and some write provocatively about sensitivesocial and political issues. On August 23rd Beijing police detained one Big V, Charles Xue,and later accused him of holding group sex parties with prostitutes. Mr Xue, who is anaturalised American, is a wealthy businessman with 12m followers. 这些被捕的还只是小人物。政府最担心的是所谓的大V，大V是指新浪微博和腾讯微博上通过实名认证并且广受欢迎的用户。许多大V有数百万粉丝，并且对敏感的社会政治问题发表激烈言论。8月23日，北京警方拘留了名人薛蛮子，随后指控其聚众淫乱。薛蛮子是美籍华人，一个拥有1200万粉丝的富商。 | 
