Google forced to shut sites

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    24 June 2009

    THE Chinese government will force the world's biggest technology company Google to block a raft of overseas sites on its search engine.

    This is China's third major internet censorship move in a month amid growing internet activism in the country and in the shadow of a strong online element in the disputed election in Iran.

    The attack on Google was issued under a "pornography" crackdown and comes only two weeks after the government surprised its media and technology sector by introducing the "Green Dam Youth Escort" filtering software onto every new computer sold after July 1.