Consensus (website)

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The '''Consensus'''<ref name="ChanJohnson2021">{{cite book|author1=Shun-hing Chan|author2=Jonathan W. Johnson|title=Citizens of Two Kingdoms: Civil Society and Christian Religion in Greater China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IRAoEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA46|date=6 April 2021|publisher=Brill Publishers|isbn=978-90-04-45937-3|pages=46–}}</ref> or Consensus Net,<ref name="qz.com">{{cite web |url=https://qz.com/798771/consensus-net-one-of-chinas-last-remaining-websites-for-intellectuals-has-suddenly-shut-down-amid-a-widespread-crackdown-on-free-speech/|title=China's Consensus Net, a website for open intellectual discussion, has suddenly shut down|author=Tom Tsui|date=Oct 3, 2016|work=Quartz}}</ref> also known as 21st Century Web,<ref name="Wu2015">{{cite book|author=Guoguang Wu|title=China's Party Congress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ytuCCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA314|date=18 September 2015|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-08202-1|pages=314–}}</ref> was a Chinese renowned ideological and cultural website<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dw.com/zh/%E5%85%B1%E8%AF%86%E7%BD%91%E5%9B%BD%E5%BA%86%E6%94%BE%E9%A3%8E%E6%89%93%E7%83%8A/a-35945436|title=Consensus Network closed on the National Day?|author=|date=Oct 3, 2016|work=Deutsche Welle}}</ref> launched on 1 September 2009<ref name="globalvoices.org">{{cite web |url=https://globalvoices.org/2016/10/05/as-authorities-shutter-gongshi-intellectual-website-netizens-ask-has-china-reached-the-end-of-consensus/|title=Chinese Authorities Shutter 'Gongshi' Intellectual Website, Leading Netizens to Ask: Is This 'The End of Consensus'?|author=Oiwan Lam|date=5 October 2016|work=Global Voices}}</ref> by Zhou Zhixing.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/china/2016/10/161003_china_21ccom-net_suspended|title=China's "Consensus Network" inaccessible, founder says future not promising|author=|date=2016-10-03|website=BBC.com}}</ref> The website published commentaries and analysis from both left and right wing scholars on topics such as economics and culture.<ref name="qz.com"/>

Sponsored by Lide Consensus (Beijing) Network Media Technology Co., Ltd.,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rfi.fr/tw/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B/20161003-%E8%87%AA%E7%94%B1%E6%B4%BE%E5%85%B1%E8%AD%98%E7%B6%B2%E7%AA%81%E9%81%AD%E9%97%9C%E9%96%89%E5%89%B5%E8%BE%A6%E4%BA%BA%E7%A8%B1%E2%80%9C%E4%B8%8D%E7%9F%A5%E4%BB%A5%E5%BE%8C%E6%9C%83%E6%80%8E%E6%A8%A3%E2%80%9D|title=A large number of Chinese military self-media have been shut down|author=|date=Oct 3, 2016|work=Radio France Internationale}}</ref> the position of Consensus leaned toward liberalism.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://tw.appledaily.com/international/20161003/RL63IIQ633756ZULA4UUNZ2F7I/|title=Consensus network was suddenly closed founder: the future does not know!|author=|date=2016-10-03|work=Apple Daily}}</ref>

Consensus ([https://web.archive.org/web/20101104043003/http://www.21ccom.net/ www.21ccom.net])<ref name="Sun2020">{{cite book|author=Yan Sun|title=From Empire to Nation State: Ethnic Politics in China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qp3wDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA349|date=17 September 2020|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-84029-3|pages=349–}}</ref> was the official website of ''Leader Magazine'' in simplified Chinese,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/duomeiti/tebiejiemu/wzy-10062016104209.html|title=Why can't Consensus Network open?|author=|date=2016-10-06|work=Radio Free Asia}}</ref> whose mission was to "seek consensus in the era of great transformation".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://advox.globalvoices.org/2016/10/05/as-authorities-shutter-gongshi-intellectual-website-netizens-ask-has-china-reached-the-end-of-consensus/|title=Chinese Authorities Shutter 'Gongshi' Intellectual Website, Leading Netizens to Ask: Is This 'The End of Consensus'?|author=Oiwan Lam|date=Oct 5, 2016|website=Globalvoices.org}}</ref>

==History== The [https://web.archive.org/web/20101104043003/http://www.21ccom.net/ 21ccom.net] domain name was registered on February 20, 2009.<ref name="DomainTools">{{cite web|title=Whois Record for 21ccom.net|work=WHOIS|url=https://whois.domaintools.com/21ccom.net|access-date=2021-04-10}}</ref>

Consensus was shut down by order of the Beijing authority on October 1, 2016.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rfi.fr/tw/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B/20161002-%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B-%E2%80%9C%E5%85%B1%E8%AD%98%E7%B6%B2%E2%80%9D%E9%81%AD%E4%BB%A4%E9%97%9C%E9%96%89|title=China's "Consensus Network" Ordered to Close|author=|date=2016-10-03|work=Radio France Internationale}}</ref>

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