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To: SE Mom
FWIW, on a related note....

Chinese Internet censorship: An inside look

159 posted on 05/12/2008 9:53:55 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla

Amazing, isn’t it?

From your link:

~snip~

Are average Chinese Internet users afraid of the government’s Internet control system?

No. To begin with, not that many of them are even aware of it. The government discourages upfront discussion of the Great Firewall’s existence, what sites or search terms are forbidden, etc. Moreover, to the extent people are aware of it, indications are that they are hardly up in arms. My wife, Deborah Fallows, represents the Pew Internet project in China. In March of this year she released a study showing that a strong majority of Chinese Internet users welcomed the idea of controls over Web content and thought it was only natural that the government would do the controlling. This is a startling concept to many Westerners, but she explains the logic of it here.

~snip


164 posted on 05/12/2008 10:16:36 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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