After Bo Xilai’s Purge, Web Searches for ‘Organ Harvest’
Suddenly Allowed      Posts on popular microblog websites in
China forward and comment on the fact that searches for "live
harvest" and similar terms were unblocked. The terms, related to
organ harvesting in China, were apparently uncensored for
searching soon after it was announced that Bo would be expelled
from the Party (      The Communist Party in China enforces a
regime of Internet censorship so strict that when there’s a
gap—especially a big, obvious, gaping one—observers are apt to
conclude that it simply must have been deliberate.      So when,
soon after it was announced on Sept. 28 that ousted Politburo
official Bo Xilai was being expelled from the Party, searches
for highly sensitive political terms like “live harvest” and
“bloody harvest” were allowed on several popular websites,
analysts began trying to figure out what it meant.      “I think
only a handful of people really know the meaning of this,” wrote
Ethan Gutmann, a researcher who h