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"With engineering help from half a dozen Western firms, the Chinese Communist Party has erected a huge apparatus to censor free speech. A ragtag crew of hacker dissidents may succeed in tearing it down."
Cracks In (China's) Wall: Hackers May Tear it Down
Seeded on Mon Feb 13, 2006 6:03 PM EST
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Yahoo's subsidiary fingered Shi by handing Chinese authorities the digital fingerprints of Shi's e-mail. The evidence led to the journalist's ten-year prison sentence last year.
This is an amazingly harsh move by Yahoo!, considering that its founder Jerry Yang is of Taiwanese descent.
It is said (by dissidents) that China has 40,000 Web police hard at work just in Beijing, looking over the shoulders of Web users and composing lists of banned words
My cousin actually used to work for CNNIC, the agency that is charged with regulating China's portion of the internet. I've heard accounts of the web policing, but the 40,000 number sounds inflated.
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