The 'Blog' Revolution Sweeps Across China
December 2, 2004
By Xiao Qiang, New Scientist
Meet the bloggers who are keeping one step ahead of the censors
By Xiao Qiang, New Scientist
The "blog revolution" has a particularly revolutionary character in China,
where weblog technology is circumventing government censors by
decentralizing and popularizing the flow of information. By inviting the
Internet behind its "Great Firewall," the Chinese government has unwittingly
opened a Pandora's Box of free discourse that threatens its totalitarian
stranglehold on the media.
The entire story may be viewed at
http://www.utne.com/webwatch/2004_176/news/11478-1.html
Thursday, December 02, 2004
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