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From Rebecca MacKinnon
Whether it's Baidu or Chinese versions of YouTube or Sina or Sohu, Chinese Internet sites are getting daily directives from the government telling them what kinds of content they cannot allow on their site and what they need to delete.
Consistently, Baidu has censored politically sensitive search results much more thoroughly than Google.cn.
Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.
There is a widening gap between the middle-aged-to-older generation, who still read newspapers and watch CCTV news, and the Internet generation.
QQ is not secure. You might as well be sharing your information with the Public Security Bureau.
When Google went into China, there were some people who said they shouldn't compromise at all - that it is very bad for human rights to do so. But there were other people, particularly Chinese people, who said they were glad Google had gone in.
Facebook has a rule that you're not supposed to be anonymous.
There has been a rising tide of criticism about China's treatment of foreign companies.
Twitter is growing up, expanding into other countries, and recognizing that the Internet is contrary to what people hoped; the government does reach into the Internet.
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