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Police detain online gossiper
POLICE in south China's Guangzhou City have detained a man who started rumors that police approved a protest rally to protect the Cantonese language.
The man surnamed Yu was not even a Cantonese speaker, police said. Yu came to Guangzhou from Hubei province on a business trip and posted the rumors online on July 16. His posts prompted hundreds of people to gather in the city's Haizhu District on Sunday, according to today's Guangzhou Daily.
Police explained that the rumor was shaped from a political advisor's proposal that Guangzhou's main television company should broadcast more programs in Mandarin to cater for migrant workers who couldn't understand the local dialect.
But rumors spread that the government would ban Cantonese broadcasts in the province, stirring fears that the dialect would be sidelined, the report said.
The man surnamed Yu was not even a Cantonese speaker, police said. Yu came to Guangzhou from Hubei province on a business trip and posted the rumors online on July 16. His posts prompted hundreds of people to gather in the city's Haizhu District on Sunday, according to today's Guangzhou Daily.
Police explained that the rumor was shaped from a political advisor's proposal that Guangzhou's main television company should broadcast more programs in Mandarin to cater for migrant workers who couldn't understand the local dialect.
But rumors spread that the government would ban Cantonese broadcasts in the province, stirring fears that the dialect would be sidelined, the report said.
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