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Friday, August 22, 2008

China Increases Internet Censorship

The Old Gray Lady reports that the authoritarian regime currently occupying the Chinese capital of Beijing has begun to block internet access to iTunes on the Chinese mainland, most likely in retaliation to a benefit album for Tibet being sold by Apple's online music rental service in North America and parts of Europe. According to a knowledgeable Ganymede's Ghost source in Shanghai, the regime already routinely blocks access on the mainland to several very innocuous web sites including Blogger, Wikipedia, and Ganymede's Ghost.

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