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Over at Poynter, Tom Rosenstiel talks about China’s recent censorship protests. “It is telling that the protests in China this week over government control involve a newspaper and censorship–not a military tank in a public square.” About half of China’s population is online. Rosenstiel discusses how the web causes interesting fractures in what kind of information gets shared (many Chinese willing to talk movies and music, very few about politics). While the web provides an equalizer of sorts (or the opportunity for equality) in international information trade, repressive governments find a way to study and adapt to new technologies (better, faster, stronger than journalists?).
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