Thursday, January 08, 2009


	
    

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The Internet in China: under high surveillance

In 2008, the Chinese web user population has become the largest in the world. Their access to the World Wide Web is nonetheless far more restricted than in Western countries, with strict mechanisms of censorship.

All special reports

Skype admits to spying on its Chinese users Online communications company Skype said on Thursday that its Chinese partner TOM Online had been monitoring and storing politically-sensitive user text messages without its knowledge. TOM claimed it followed Chinese law.

Web rush in the Far East With its 250 million Web-users in July 2008, China has pushed the United States off the cyber-podium and now numbers more Internet-users than any other country in the world.

The Great Wall of censorship With an estimated yearly budget of 20 billion dollars and a special task force of up to 100,000, Internet censorship in China has become a way of life.

China won't back down on Internet censorship China said it would not back down on Internet censorship during the Olympic Games, insisting that the banned sites are in violation of Chinese law. The international community has sharply criticised the move.

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