April 14, 2005
Web Censors In China Find Success
China operates the most extensive, technologically sophisticated and broad-reaching system of Internet filtering in the world," reports Phayul.com.
"Researchers said they worry that China's censorship system could become a model for other countries looking to keep the lid on Internet use.
China's success at censorship is even more remarkable to researchers because the country is promoting economic growth using technology. An estimated 100 million Chinese use the Internet, nearly half of whom who have high-speed connections.
[...] Using tests conducted inside and outside China, researchers were able to identify censorship at many of those points.
Filters are placed on the main "backbone" networks that carry Internet traffic, the study said. A handful of licensed Internet providers also perform their own filtering. Major Chinese search engines filter out or block keywords that would enable surfers to see certain sites.
Providers of Web log, or blogging, services block certain posts. Text messaging software has built-in forbidden lists of keywords, which halt service temporarily if used".
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