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Inside the great firewall of China Tom Smith

By Thomas A. Smith

Good show on BBC World Service today about how dissidents are using the internet in Red China (the “PRC”) to circumvent the rigorous censorship imposed by the party, and how the Party is fighting back.  China now has more web dissidents in prison than the rest of the world combined (48).  The state is using sophisticated technology to squash free cyberexpression, but people are hacking their around it, or trying to.  Should Google and Yahoo should be cooperating with the effort to make the internet safe for tyranny?