Chinese blogs face restrictions

“The Chinese government has announced plans to police web forums, chat rooms and blogs alongside other websites. Websites in China have long been required to be officially registered. The authorities are now determined that blogs should also be brought under state control.”

There are 3 billion Chinese. Even if only 150,000,000 (1/2 the population of the U.S.) have blogs each of them could make more than one blog. They must be using fear to control the people because that seems like the only way they could really control the freedom of ideas on the Internet.

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