‘Patriotic traffic business’: when China’s cyber nationalists cross Beijing’s red line
Over the years, influencer Sima Nan rose to fame waging campaigns against enemies of the state. He began to gather atten in the 1990s, appearing on national television to attack qigong masters including Falun Gong, a spiritual group Beijing later outlawed as an “evil cult”. Along the way, Sima Nan, whose real name was Yu…