The race to outwit Chinese Internet censors

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The race to outwit Chinese Internet censors

04-29-2008, 09:12 AM,

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The race to outwit Chinese Internet censors

Quote:If an Internet user in China searches for the word "persecution," he or she is likely to come up with a link to a blank screen that says "page cannot be displayed."

The same is true of searches for "Tibetan independence," "democracy movements" or stranger sounding terms such as "oriental red space time" -- code for an anti-censorship video made secretly by reporters at China's state TV station.

It's a reflection of the stifling, bizarre and sometimes dangerous world of Internet censorship in China. The communist government in Beijing is intensifying its efforts to control what its citizens can read and discuss online as political tensions rise ahead of this summer's Olympic Games...

full article: http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/62749....1209460280

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