“You really see this issue of China and the Chinese Communist Party being at the forefront of developing these models of Internet control.”

“You really see this issue of China and the Chinese Communist Party being at the forefront of developing these models of Internet control.”

“You really see this issue of China and the Chinese Communist Party

being at the forefront of developing these models of Internet control.”

—Sarah Cook, co-author, Freedom House’s “Freedom on the Net 2011″ report.

A case in point: When holdouts in the Mubarak regime in Egypt shut down

that country’s whole access to the Internet last January, it was called

an “unprecedented” move for a modern economy. But, in fact, the Egyptian

technicians were merely copying what China had successfully pioneered 18

months earlier.

Want to know more? Read here:

China Leads the Way in Internet Censorship—and Others are Catching on

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The Epoch Times

via Gunny G: BLOGGER 1984 +: “You really see this issue of China and the Chinese Communist Party being at the forefront of developing these models of Internet control.”.

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