http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051103/ap_on_hi_te/china_blocked_blog;_ylt=AhBwrsrlxKfEUDa2KyOePR2s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3cjE0b2MwBHNlYwM3Mzg- BEIJING - Chinese authorities have blocked a pro-democracy Web log after it was nominated for a freedom of expression award by a German radio station, a press freedom group said Thursday... The blog, titled Wang Yi's Microphone, dealt with "sensitive subjects" and was maintained by a teacher from Sichuan province... China's communist government encourages Internet use for education and business, but blocks material deemed subversive or pornographic.... The site was nominated for a "Best of the Blogs" award in the freedom of expression category by the German public radio station Deutsche Welle....the radio station described Wang as an "anti-government Chinese intellectual" who used the blog to fight for justice....
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Here's an interesting report that describes China's massive internet censorship program: http://www.opennetinitiative.net/studies/china/ Highlights: China's Internet filtering regime is the most sophisticated effort of its kind in the world... It comprises multiple levels of legal regulation and technical control. It involves numerous state agencies and thousands of public and private personnel. It censors content transmitted through multiple methods, including Web pages, Web logs, on-line discussion forums, university bulletin board systems, and e-mail messages. Our testing found efforts to prevent access to a wide range of sensitive materials, from pornography to religious material to political dissent. Chinese citizens seeking access to Web sites containing content related to Taiwanese and Tibetan independence, Falun Gong, the Dalai Lama, the Tiananmen Square incident, opposition political parties, or a variety of anti-Communist movements will frequently find themselves blocked... Filtering takes place primarily at the backbone level of China's network, though individual Internet service providers also implement their own blocking. Our research confirmed claims that major Chinese search engines filter content by keyword and remove certain search results from their lists. Similarly, major Chinese Web log ("blog") service providers either prevent posts with certain keywords or edit the posts to remove them. We found also that some keyword searches were blocked by China's gateway filtering and not the search engines themselves. Cybercafés, which provide an important source of access to the Internet for many Chinese, are required by law to track Internet usage by customers and to keep correlated information on file for 60 days...
