Catherine Armitage: China fights to control the net

Posted by | Jun 5, 2005

From the Australian:

A Chinese government threat to close down unregistered websites has convinced just 430,000 to make themselves known at the Information Ministry – suggesting that most of the country’s estimated 4 million web loggers, or bloggers, are choosing to stay out in the cold.

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