It is left to officials and the state media to implore netizens to be responsible.
Last week an anonymous group of "netizens" posted an open letter on Chinese blogs and forums.
He also acknowledged the role netizens played in exposing the incident, according to reports.
Handing such a valuable monopoly over to private interests did not go down well with the netizens.
It didn't take long -- actually, just a day -- before outraged netizens tracked down Ding in Nanjing.
By Wednesday, netizens there had added over 17, 000 comments to the deceased's last Weibo post about her breakfast.
By Wednesday, netizens there had added more than 17, 000 comments to the victim's last Weibo post about her breakfast.
He says netizens speculating over the student's identity are being "disrespectful" towards the request for anonymity from the deceased's family.
"We cancelled the offer last night after taking into consideration the feeling of netizens, " spokesman Zang Wuan told Reuters news agency.
After an online appeal for help, some netizens responded by driving their own cars to the airport to pick up people.
But netizens anger seems to be directed at taxi drivers who provide a public service, even if their employment is private.
So who had the honor of breaking the news to Malaysia's Netizens?
The early citizens of the net (or netizens) took their netizenship serious, and built homepages about themselves and subjects they were experts in.
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On Friday Chinese carrier Spring Airlines cancelled a promotion offering free tickets from Shanghai to Saga prefecture in Japan following outcry from netizens.
The number of Netizens, in America and elsewhere, is set to rocket still further as PC prices fall and peer pressure to get online rises.
Netizens are normally suspicious of governments, but this proposal might persuade even the most hardened anarchist that legislation has a role to play in cyberspace after all.
On Friday, Chinese netizens had set up a Web site memorial to Jackson, and on Fanfou.com, China's version of Twitter, the pop star has become the most popular tag.
Nearly half of China's 513 million netizens used weibo sites - Twitter equivalents - last year compared to 63 million in 2010, the China Internet Network Information Center report said.
Feng, who lost his 8-year-old son in the quake, posted an essay, "Many Ifs, " on his blog an hour before his suicide, bidding goodbye to his family, friends and netizens.
These quotes were widely circulated on the internet and resonated with netizens who expressed shock and anger as they asked why a talented journalist ended up taking his own life.
Microsoft is also launching regional portals, and while it's not cool among Netizens to like anything Microsoft does, it is a force to be reckoned with simply because it IS Microsoft.
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The reaction from Chinese netizens, however, seems overwhelmingly positive.
Every year more and more people sign on and, not surprisingly, many of the 663 million netizens added over the last three years have come from developing nations like China and India.
The big losers in this fight are obviously the users themselves as well as Tencent, since the majority of Chinese netizens have sided with Qihoo against the company, which was not exactly known for its popularity in the world of Chinese IT.
Turning to a positive news on the web, police and netizens have come to the rescue of a migrant worker in Shanghai after the family's hard-earned savings blew out of his pocket while he was riding a motorbike and were looted by unknown people.
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