The Internet in China is not as restricted as sometimes believed in the West, with most controls actually coming from sites practicing self-censorship, an academic who studies the Chinese Web said on Thursday.But the government has also effectively stopped online dissent, defying expectations that the Communist Party would never survive broadband, said Rebecca MacKinnon, assistant professor of new media at Hong Kong University’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKPEK9306120070927
http://www.news.com/2100-1028_3-6210299.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10466487
http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39168584,00.htm