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Monday, July 16, 2007

Cell Phones, Internet Communist Party Poopers

One of China's vice ministers with the State Council Information Office admitted in a newspaper interview that the Internet, cell phones and other technologies are making it increasingly hard for the communist party to CONTROL INFORMATION -- despite a massive, ongoing crackdown. He cited the recent news about widespread slavery in China, which the communist party would normally want to censor, but which got out anyway. He also suggested that censorship itself in China is starting to cause social unrest.

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