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China Closes 90 Websites as Internet Crackdown Intensifies
Nervous Beijing 'determined to quell online dissent' as economic gloom deepens and sensitive anniversaries loom
The Guardian
Tania Branigan and Jemima Kiss
12 January 2009
China has closed over 90 websites to eradicate vulgar and pornographic material. Observers fear this signals a determination to control the net.
Authorities are thought to be particularly nervous about Charter 08.
Bullog, a prominent Chinese blog and one of the liveliest sites for discussion was banned for containing too much "harmful" comment on current affairs.
Xiao Qiang, director of the China Internet Project at UC at Berkeley, stated, "The sheer number of bloggers and the sheer number who are willing to express themselves politically are growing dramatically. The language is changing from implicit to more and more explicit, communities are swarming and their opinions and influence are getting stronger – even compared with six months ago."
Despite the clampdown and censorship of references to it, over 7,000 people have signed Charter 08. Beijing is unnerved by the unusual coalition of intellectuals and others.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/13/china-internet-censorship
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