China wants to avoid contagion from the Egyptian dispute over the Web. Since Saturday, January 29, authorities have asked the Internet portals or sites micromessagerie, Chinese equivalent of Twitter, not to show the result of the keyword "Egypt." If this launches a Chinese Internet research on sites such as Sina and Sohu, the following message appears: "The laws in force, the results of your search can not be divulged." Blocking remains effective Monday.
If users type the word key in English, they seem to be able to access results. With over 450 million Internet users, China is also adept at social networks. If Twitter is monitored in China, the local sites micromessagerie gather tens of millions of users. Similar measures in 2009 on television or in the press, the media coverage is minimal: the unrest in Egypt are not subject to China only brief notices, written almost entirely by the official media.
The Wall Street Journal, even the comments left by surfers after these items are carefully filtered. It is also not the first time that China is implementing such measures. The country, which has with its "Great Firewall", an extensive system of Internet filtering, had also blocked access to Facebook and Twitter, when revolts in Xinjiang in 2009. 
If users type the word key in English, they seem to be able to access results. With over 450 million Internet users, China is also adept at social networks. If Twitter is monitored in China, the local sites micromessagerie gather tens of millions of users. Similar measures in 2009 on television or in the press, the media coverage is minimal: the unrest in Egypt are not subject to China only brief notices, written almost entirely by the official media.
The Wall Street Journal, even the comments left by surfers after these items are carefully filtered. It is also not the first time that China is implementing such measures. The country, which has with its "Great Firewall", an extensive system of Internet filtering, had also blocked access to Facebook and Twitter, when revolts in Xinjiang in 2009.
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