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China's latest export: web censorship - Times Online
relatively trivial compared with China's interventions, but they indicate a willingness to extend national boundaries onto the web. Western democracies may not like what China is doing in practice, but they seem to like the principle of nationally regulatedshop in China and agree to abide by the local rules, they're keen to play up the optimism of the dot-com days, when the web was going to liberate the world. Censored information is better than no information at all, they say, and once peopleusers. It's still crude but could open up a world without language borders.....Will participation within such graphical web worlds that begin to emerge, still allow for extensive censorship?.... Oh yes, the web still threatens the divides between nations in my opinion, towards truly a global village. I will be impressed with the Business City Guides Free Finance Brochures IFA Search News Bulletin Dating Free Credit Report Cheese Best Artisan Cheeses, £27.50 Direct from the farms
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