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China Daily pirates a blog, and also says "Strong progress in IPR protection campaign"

Those loveable editors at the state-owned China Daily's website just can't resist the copy and paste method of content creation. They have once again copied an entire article from a blog, this time from Hong Kong's hyperactively prolific ESWN. The article was originally titled "The Most Popular Forum Post Ever In China", and renamed "An anti-discrimination bout staged in China's cyberspace" by the China Daily.

The article is credited to "Sophie Beach (EastSouthWestNorth Forum)" — Sophie Beach writes for China Digital Times, which excerpted ESWN's article; ESWN is a blog, not a forum. But the China Daily has never worried too much about facts, those pesky things. Another recent story on the China Daily's website started with this line:

China's specialized campaign to enforce intellectual property rights laws has been extremely successful, government officials said...
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