When has China blocked Internet sites and why?
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China's leadership has regularly blocked online sites and blacked out TV networks. Here’s why.
1: The beginning: regulations China began Internet censorship with regulations, codified a year later, that have broad categories under which sites could be blocked. Visitors wait to take a turn surfing the Internet at an international computer exhibition in Beijing in 1996. The following are a few examples of censorship: Greg Baker/AP
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The New York Times had reported on the huge wealth accumulated by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s family.
This year, scientists have recorded and observed galactic interactions, atmospheric phenomena and the first images of a black hole.