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Twitter Censorship in China

Posted by: Heather Green on July 18

Frederick Balfour, a BWer in China, blogs about the government monitoring Twitter accounts.

According to a video interview with prominent blogger Oiwan Lam, China’s thought police have monitored twitter postings of some of her friends, forcing them to limit access to their twitterings, thereby limiting their impact.

Still, the government apparently isn’t as successful infiltrating tweets as they are in with blogs, forums and chat rooms.

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Reader Comments

D.C.

July 18, 2008 02:10 PM

Never ceases to amaze me. No matter when or where, information is so powerful that people deem it necessary to limit their disemination throughout the public.

Makes me believe that knowledge is still the most powerful and influential force in the world.

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