TIMELINE: Previous Chinese high-tech skirmishes over censorship

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    12 June 2009

    China's tough stance on Web censorship and promoting its own technologies has put it at odds with Western technology firms on several occasions in recent years.

    The latest of those has pitted PC makers against a government that says it's intent on keeping pornography out of the hands of China's youth, though many believe the move could involve censorship and invasion of privacy.

    Google, Yahoo and Intel have all faced similar past issues in one of the world's fastest growing, but also most highly censored, markets.