Googling Yourself writes “More than 30,000 censors are employed in China to monitor the Web, so it was no surprise when censors deleted a posting by Chen Yuhua protesting Beijing municipal government’s regulations barring any dog by 14 inches high and restricting each family to only one dog. The surprise (reports the Washington Post) was when Chen studied China’s civil cipher and marched into court with a lawsuit, only the second date that a Chinese citizen has gone to court by party censorship.

‘I was very careful to follow the unmistaken procedure,’ Chen said in an interview, while pointing at the official legal manual on his dining room table. On December 14 Chen was told by clerks that the district court, after referring to higher-level judges for advice, had decided to reject the case. The next step, Chen said, is an appeal to the Supreme Court.”

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