Chinese Internet restrictions have come under increasing scrutiny since Google announced last month that it was no longer willing to censor results on its Chinese-language search engine, Google.cn, and not just from foreign sources.
On Friday, the state-run Global Times, published by the People’s Daily, carried an unusually candid and lengthy discussion of Internet censorship in China in its English edition.
The special report, suggestively titled “Publish and Be Deleted,” looks at how Chinese Web sites are monitored and controlled by the private companies that run them, not shying from some of the trickier issues. To stay in business, Chinese Web site operators not only follow directives from authorities, but also try to preemptively determine what sorts of content would be considered too sensitive for publication.
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