The internet and mobile phones have undermined attempts by China’s secretive rulers to control the news, a senior Communist party official admitted today.He accused local governments of being “too naive” by continuing to suppress damaging information about corruption or about disasters, and urged party members to be more open with members of the public.Wang Guoqing, a vice minister with the cabinet’s information office said: “It has been repeatedly proved that information blocking is like walking into a dead end.”
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Web censorship is failing, says Chinese official
A Government minister admits that trying to suppress information on the internet “is like walking into a dead end”