How fast it all happend. Dec 6, 1:25pm Weibo account with 39k followers posts this video. 11:01pm, Sanxing Township issues a statement on WeChat, which Dianshi News shares 1 hour later on Weibo. Other news agencies follow, lots of posts through the night. Haimen District 
https://twitter.com/Chri5tianGoebel/status/1468314408472526850
publishes its statement on Weibo at 5:15 on December 7, People's Daily Online reacts to this only 15 minutes later. Many posts yesterday, apparently there was another elderly sugarcane seller whose merchandise was seized. 200 citizens organised to help elderly sell sugarcane.
I am sure there is more to this fascinating story, which is also covered in a lot of traditional news outlets, often with interesting background information on the company and its relationship with the township government. I find this so fascinating because every day,
there are dozens of stories of grave injustice on Weibo, but it happens very, very seldom that they blow up like this.
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