THE first e-mail sent from China, on September 14th 1987, was optimistic: “Across the Great Wall we can reach every corner in the world.” Few of China’s 560m internet users now have such reach, however, because China tightly controls its people’s use of the internet.
via The Economist explains: How does China censor the internet? | The Economist.
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