China will gradually move to cut censorship of the Internet, but it will take a long time, the man credited with inventing the World Wide Web said.Commenting on Google’s threat to pull out of China, Tim Berners-Lee said Beijing was having to move “carefully” in opening up Internet openness, but said the “genie is out of the bottle” in terms of access.
www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/davos/7085243/Davos-2010-Web-inventor-Tim-Berners-Lee-says-China-will-take-a-long-time-to-cut-internet-censorship.htmlAlso see:China to take time to cut Internet censorship: web founder [AFP]
China will gradually move to cut censorship of the Internet, but it will take a long time, the man credited with inventing the World Wide Web said Wednesday.Commenting on Google’s threat to pull out of China, Tim Berners-Lee said Beijing was having to move “carefully” in opening up Internet openness, but said the “genie is out of the bottle” in terms of access.
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