Web censorship: Correspondent reports
BBC News
May 29, 2006
Officially China does not censor the internet. According to the Chinese government, its internet regulation is no different from that in America, Britain, or anywhere else in the world.
China says it only blocks internet sites that are damaging, such as pornographic sites, or ones promoting things like terrorism.
The reality of China's internet is very different.
Just try logging on to the BBC News website from an internet cafe in China. You can't. The same goes for websites for The New York Times, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and a host of others which could hardly be described as pornographic or "dangerous".
China probably has the most sophisticated internet monitoring and censorship system in the world. In the last few years it has spent tens of millions of dollars building what has come to be known as the "Great Firewall of China". In the past, whole websites were blocked. Today the system can block out individual parts of websites.
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Yeah but lets face it. BBC news is very biased and anti china. Im sure people saw all the crap they wrote about the FLG cult being persecuted but didnt give the reasons why china deemed them as being dangerous to peace and stability of the country.
I wonder why the BBC is running this story? Is there any 'new' news being reported?
Google's been banned too. Probably for the Anniversary.