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Originally Posted by wdsguy
That is greatly exaggerated.
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When it comes to search engines and microblogging, dictates from the central Propaganda Department filter out topics and words that the Communist Party deems a threat to national stability or its reputation. At public cybercafes, where much of China’s working class gains access to the Internet, customers must hand over state-issued identification before getting on a computer....
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/26/wo...hina.html?_r=3
http://www.itproportal.com/2011/07/2...toring/....the regulatory body of China has ordered businesses like cyber cafes, hotels, restaurants, shops, and showrooms in Central Beijing to install an expensive web monitoring technology and keep a check on the people using their wireless connection....
http://www.itproportal.com/2011/07/2...#ixzz1TZToz4dm
The size of the Internet police is rumored at more than 30,000....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interne...lic_of_ China
China's secret internet police....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...ticle_continue
From Amnesty International.....
China's 'Golden Shield Project'. The Government is watching you.
Behind what has been dubbed the 'Great Firewall of China' citizens can be imprisoned for sending emails....
http://www.amnesty.org.au/china/comments/10926/