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China - We Don't Censor the Internet
kaufmanmoore writes "A Chinese government official at a United Nations summit in Athens on internet governance has claimed that no Net censorship exists at all in China. The article includes an exchange by a Chinese government official and a BBC reporter over the blocking of the BBC in China." From the article: "I don't think we should be using different standards to judge China. In China, we don't have software blocking Internet sites. Sometimes we have trouble accessing them. But that's a different problem. I know that some colleagues listen to the BBC in their offices from the Webcast. And I've heard people say that the BBC is not available in China or that it's blocked. I'm sure I don't know why people say this kind of thing. We do not have restrictions at all."
For a day... They can also allow certain networks (ones, where any would-be inspectors will be checking) unlimited access.
They are, after all, Communists — don't ever forget that...
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If I lived in china and read the U.S. news i probably wouldn't see any difference you would just have to substitute "bush" for "hu" "terrorists" for "traitors of the state" China has a political situation much the same as that in the U.S.
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When you watch the staggering pro-Republican bullshit on Fox News every day, do you blame Bush for it? I blame TV stations for not taking a stand and reporting the truth as it is, but instead doing things "in the interest of shareholders". Google did exactly this. I'm not defending the Chinese government here, but Google censored Google images, and we should place the blame where it belongs.