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Saturday, August 02, 2008 - Posts

Quote to remember and comments on the Great China Firewall

From the New York Times 8/2/08 at the end of an article about how more Internet sites might be opened up for access soon:Sun Weide, a spokesman for the Beijing organizing committee, had said in an interview in Beijing in March: “The commitment we have
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China moves slightly to opening Internet -- for foreign journalists

It now looks as if some blocks against web sites have been lifted by the Chinese authorities.The folks inside the Olympics Village bubble can now visit the Amnesty International and BBC Chinese language sites.Filters on "subversive" words remain in place,
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