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  • noun Plural form of netizen.

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Examples

  • This week, Weibo users were complaining that their messages about the July 23 train crash were being "harmonized," a euphemism netizens use to describe censorship and removal of their postings.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • When Dent informed him that the word "netizens" meaning web users or "citizens of the internet" had entered the dictionary, Hewer looked like he'd found something unsavoury on the sole of his smartest shoes.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2012

  • The reason we don't use our true identity while communicating with netizens is because by not revealing our identity we allow them to feel our mutual equality, and avoid creating a feeling of opposition.

    Usha Haley: China's Fifty Cent Party for Internet Propaganda Usha Haley 2010

  • The reason we don't use our true identity while communicating with netizens is because by not revealing our identity we allow them to feel our mutual equality, and avoid creating a feeling of opposition.

    Usha Haley: China's Fifty Cent Party for Internet Propaganda Usha Haley 2010

  • The reason we don't use our true identity while communicating with netizens is because by not revealing our identity we allow them to feel our mutual equality, and avoid creating a feeling of opposition.

    Usha Haley: China's Fifty Cent Party for Internet Propaganda Usha Haley 2010

  • Many now consider themselves "netizens" -- an identity that relates them to the entire world.

    Criticizing the person versus criticizing the idea Clark Aldrich 2005

  • Technologically savvy Chinese "netizens" -- if that term even has meaning in a place like China -- find ways to fan qiang (scale the "Great Firewall"), but most users, like their counterparts elsewhere, are more interested in entertainment gossip, pirated MP3s, and updates from their friends than missives from Falun Gong or the latest report from Human Rights Watch.

    Benton Foundation - Headlines 2010

  • "This would send a strong message to all" netizens "- individuals, organizations and states alike - that censorship online is not the only way forward," they said.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • "This would send a strong message to all" netizens "- individuals, organizations and states alike - that censorship online is not the only way forward," they said.

    unknown title 2009

  • "This would send a strong message to all" netizens "- individuals, organizations and states alike - that censorship online is not the only way forward," they said.

    unknown title 2009

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