A young Woman using a computer at a Chinese Internet cafe in Fuyang, Anhui Province---China shuts down 55 more websites claiming that they contain porn or lewd contents.
Porn or Lewd content in China? Translation stifling free speech the crackdown is "aimed at creating a healthy Internet environment...to stifle dissent in a year sensitive to anniversaries including the 20th anniversary of the crackdown of the pro-democracy Tiananmen Square protests."
Earlier this month China's blogging platform Bullog.cn was shut down by Chinese censors.
On the 06 January, I wrote here that China plans new crackdown on Google.
On the 21 December, I wrote here that China was blocking access to the NY Times website, in their growing effort to stifle free speech and restrict press freedom.
Free speech is essential in the pursuit of learning, every idea or thought is not an avenue of incitement, censorship only results
in the pursuit of finding cracks in the Great Firewall of China.
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