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[May 04, 2006]

Report: China leads in Internet censorship

(UPI Top Stories Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)China leads the list of nations that censor Internet communications and limit Web access, a Paris-based free speech group said Thursday.

Reporters Without Borders included a section on the Internet for the first time in its annual report on press freedom.

The report said repressive regimes are becoming more Internet-savvy and thus more inclined to limit access. In 2003, only China, Vietnam and the Maldives had imprisoned dissidents for online postings, but far more countries have joined the list of nations the organization called black holes.



The Chinese model has been a great success, and the regime has managed to dissuade Internet users from openly mentioning political topics or when they do to recycle the official line, the group said.

In Cuba, the government filters all unapproved Web sites. In Libya, a former bookseller was sentenced to 18 months in prison, and in Tunisia a lawyer who was jailed for online criticism of official corruption was being held a few hundred yards from of a United Nations conference on the Internet.

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