HONG KONG – Radiohead has taken a tentative step into censored Chinese cyberspace, even though the British rock band has been critical of China’s human rights record.

Radiohead recently launched a page on the “weibo” site of leading Chinese Internet portal Sina.com. “Weibo,” which translates as “microblog,” is the Chinese equivalent of Twitter.

But the band has only posted a single message Friday. It says “testing the weibo.”

Sina.com checks the authenticity of celebrity weibos and has certified the Radiohead weibo as genuine.

The move comes despite Radiohead’s activism against Chinese government policies. The rock group has performed at Free Tibet concerts and in December, posted a note on its official website urging fans to campaign for the release of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who won the Nobel Peace Prize last year. “You know it makes sense,” the band said.

Such comments will be unthinkable on Radiohead’s Sina microblog. The Chinese government screens Internet content for material it deems politically sensitive, such as calls for greater autonomy in Tibet and commentary on the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Foreign social media sites such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter are blocked.

Microblogs are required to delete questionable posts. Sina CEO Charles Chao told Forbes magazine in March that its weibo has at least 100 employees monitoring content 24 hours a day.

In a recent example of suspected celebrity censorship, Hong Kong actress-singer Gigi Leung last year removed an excerpt from a news story about a Chinese activist’s court case from her Sina weibo account.

Fans believe Leung was muzzled but her agent said she removed the story herself after some of her followers left messages saying they were upset by the story.

Doors fans pay a Paris tribute to Morrison

PARIS – Former members of The Doors marked the 40th anniversary of Jim Morrison’s death by lighting candles at his grave in Paris.

Morrison, lead singer of the rock band known for his partying lifestyle, died July 2, 1971, at age 27 of heart failure in his bathtub in Paris, and his grave at Pere Lachaise cemetery remains a pilgrimage site for fans.

On Sunday, band members Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist, and guitarist Robby Krieger lit candles at the grave of Morrison, known by the nickname “The Lizard King.”

Fans of Morrison, who some considered a poet, also paid homage at his grave by leaving flowers there. Some wore black T-shirts that had a white drawing of Morrison’s face and the words “40th anniversary.”

Swift ‘so, so sorry’ to cancel

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Taylor Swift has postponed a show for the first time in her career, putting off Saturday night’s sold-out show in Louisville under doctor’s orders because of an illness.

She tweeted the bad news to fans: “This is my first time having to do this. I’m so, so sorry.”

Within 20 minutes hundreds of followers had responded with get-well wishes, which were already among the most popular international trends on Twitter for the day.