Monday, January 31, 2011

Online Censorship in the network: China censors the term "Egypt"

Who in popular Chinese online news services to the term "Egypt" is looking for, receives an error message since Saturday. Affected comparable with Twitter micro-blogging platforms provider of Sina and Sohu, where individuals maintain their own news streams, videos and sources can include. The search for the word "Egypt" conducted in an attempt to Reuters to any sites, while the search for a politically stable Finland, for example, Sohu found more than 1,700 hits.


Blogger in Hong Kong and Shanghai confirm these interventions. The Beijing government censors the China-based Web sites regularly, at the same time about 450 million Internet users in the country are often prevented from visiting foreign web sites. Despite the constant fear of protests against Chinese authorities in their own country, the official news agency Xinhua and state television CCTV reported, however, about the continuing several days of mass demonstrations against the Egyptian leadership.

In this case, however, was the focus of coverage on the set of demonstrators to eliminate violence, not the cause of the protests against the government. Democracy with the conditions of Egypt and Tunisia are not compatible and related efforts in Asia would possibly lead to "chaos in the streets", a comment was in the pro-government "Global Times".

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