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Cell Phones, Net Access and Filtering in China
Posted by Paul Szynol on Monday, December 16 @ 09:35:18 EST Telecommunications
The number of people in China who use cell phones has grown at a rate of approximately 5 million/month.

According to the Xinhua news agency, in November China crossed the 200 million mark.

The number of Internet users in China, by contrast, is about 48 million.

And the number of sites blocked by the Chinese government -- about 19,000, according to a recent study conducted at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.

Times of India reports here.

 
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A clarification on number of sites blocked in China (Score: 1)
by BenEdelman on Monday, December 16 @ 18:30:56 EST
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A clarification on the post above --

Our recent report listed 19,000+ specific web sites blocked by China. But that was by no means an exhaustive list; it's virtually certain that China blocks literally hundreds of thousands of additional sites.

(How to be sure that China blocks so many sites? For one thing, when China blocks a nameserver or a "redirector" web server used by a major registrar, as many as 50,000-200,000+ domains may be blocked in one fell swoop. Block a couple of these, as it turns out China does, and literally hundreds of thousands of web sites are sure to become inaccessible.)


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