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Chinese government shut down 1.3 million sites last year

article published on 14 July, 2011

According to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Chinese government shut down 1.3 million sites in 2010. That number accounted for 41 percent of all Chinese websites. Following its policy of censorship, China began a massive crackdown on pornography in 2009, and there have been hundreds of thousands of porn-based sites shut down in the last two years. Despite the huge drop, ... [ read the full article ]

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_ 		14. July 2011 @ 04:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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Despite the huge drop, Academy researcher Liu Ruisheng said China has a "high level of freedom of online speech"
What he actually meant is that they have an insanely low level of freedom of offline speech, and that anonymous VPNs are the only safe way for a Chinese citizen to express anything at all. It is considered "activism" to simply state that one person should not have to support twenty elderly family members by themselves.

The border between China and North Korea is less protected than the border between France and Belgium and people still only defect from NK to China when they are on the verge of starvation...enough said?
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_ 		17. July 2011 @ 13:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
You can't possibly censor the internet, f-in commies.
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_ 		18. July 2011 @ 12:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
You can't plausibly, though very possibly, censor the internet f-in commies

(personally, I'm surprised China hasn't just disconnected itself entirely, putting its fingers in its ears and yelling how it can't hear us. Then turned around and made a much inferior adhoc version. The CommieNet)
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