Handing such a valuable monopoly over to private interests did not go down well with the netizens.
On Friday Chinese carrier Spring Airlines cancelled a promotion offering free tickets from Shanghai to Saga prefecture in Japan following outcry from netizens.
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.
It is left to officials and the state media to implore netizens to be responsible.
It didn't take long -- actually, just a day -- before outraged netizens tracked down Ding in Nanjing.
The reaction from Chinese netizens, however, seems overwhelmingly positive.
He also acknowledged the role netizens played in exposing the incident, according to reports.
"We cancelled the offer last night after taking into consideration the feeling of netizens, " spokesman Zang Wuan told Reuters news agency.
Last week an anonymous group of "netizens" posted an open letter on Chinese blogs and forums.
After an online appeal for help, some netizens responded by driving their own cars to the airport to pick up people.
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.
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 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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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.
By Wednesday, netizens there had added over 17, 000 comments to the deceased's last Weibo post about her breakfast.
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By Wednesday, netizens there had added more than 17, 000 comments to the victim's last Weibo post about her breakfast.
But netizens anger seems to be directed at taxi drivers who provide a public service, even if their employment is private.
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