How do you Censor 50 million Chinese netizens? – Tech-Web

imagethief.com — Delegate. At least that's what Rebecca MacKinnon said in her testimony to the Senate. In this article Imagethief quotes a short paragraph from this speech, but more importantly links to several other interesting articles on the topic of exactly how technology isn't the only way China enforces censorship.

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Ryan 1 year 48 weeks ago

Maybe I need to read the article, but where's the 50 million # come in? I thought we were up around 350-400 mil Chinese netizens.

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