Today there are more than 100 million internet users in China. The Chinese Government is ambivalent towards it. On the one hand, the internet is a tool to make money. On the other, the Communist dictatorship is afraid of freedom of expression.The internet has brought about the awakening of ideas among the Chinese. This worries the Government, which has placed great importance on blocking the internet to exert ideological control.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6181699.eceLiu Xiaobo will today be awarded the 2009 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. He is a prominent dissident writer who is being held under house arrest in Beijing. This is an edited version of an article he wrote in 2006 that was translated by the EastSouthWestNorth blog
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