Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Chinese Internet Censors Blamed for Internet Disruptions

Via Reuters.

Internet users and company officials in China on Wednesday blamed a series of disruptions to cross-border email traffic on adjustments to the country's vast Internet surveillance system.

IT company executives offered varying explanations for the email disruptions, but agreed they were not a result of standard technical problems.

China is in the midst of a highly publicized campaign to rein in "unhealthy content" in its rapidly growing Internet, whose rapid spread of information regarding incidents of government corruption and rural unrest not reported in conventional media has alarmed China's stability-obsessed leaders.

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