Fearful Chinese government puts firewalls on several thousand Chinese web sites
By AFP/ABC
Media rights group Reporters Without Borders says a “paranoid” China has blocked tens of thousands of websites ahead of the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic.
The Paris-based group said Chinese authorities had targeted Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and other ways that residents, including foreign reporters, used to circumvent controls on the Internet.
The group said “government security paranoia” in the run-up to Thursday’s anniversary was “turning into a major headache for internet users and reporters”.
It estimated that tens of thousands of web addresses had become inaccessible in recent days and said it was even more difficult to reach Facebook, Twitter and other social networking and blogging sites that were already blocked.
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