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Over on Global Voices, Chinese editor John Kennedy is doing a tremendous job of covering a mass protest of ant farmers (yes, ant farmers) in Shenyang, China which is being systematically silenced by the government.

It’s a huge scandal where a major company selling health supplements (the active ingredient is ants) has filed for bankruptcy taking thousands of workers’ personal investments in ant farming equipment down the drain.

Pictures, videos, and forum comments posted on Chinese websites are quickly being removed by the authorities, but John and other bloggers are copying and translating them on other sites before they disappear forever.

More than 11,000 people in China have visited the post already.