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Microsoft shuts down blog in China

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Saturday January 07, 2006 06:00author by D. Wolf

Web site carried politically sensitive content
Friday, January 6, 2006; Posted: 11:35 p.m. EST (04:35 GMT)
BEIJING, China (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. has shut down the Internet journal of a Chinese blogger that discussed politically sensitive issues, including a recent strike at a Beijing newspaper.
The action came amid criticism by free-speech activists of foreign technology companies that help the communist government enforce censorship or silence dissent in order to be allowed into China's market.

Related Link: http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/01/06/china.blog.shutdown.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest

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China is one of the world's internet black holes.
author by @%publication date Sat Jan 07, 2006 16:36author address author phone

Along with Iran, Tunisia, Mauritania &c..,

Here's the latest news from RSF (reporters without borders) on Chinese internet activists with back track links to _ all the cases_ reported to western media in the last years.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=15380

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/73697

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