media censored on tiananmen anniversary


	media censored on tiananmen anniversary

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/28e21bba-0a70-47e8-b4fa-e53ca7fde101/E5ABB28A-9260-4434-AE96-C38188193EA6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/14503d04-4f8f-11de-a692-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1" href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/14503d04-4f8f-11de-a692-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ft.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/14503d04-4f8f-11de-a692-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1"><P>In the run-up to the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, China is censoring foreign media and the internet to an extent not seen since the crackdown that preceded the Beijing Olympics.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/14503d04-4f8f-11de-a692-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1">Government agencies are banning delivery of foreign newspapers, disrupting satellite news broadcasts and <A href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e8b88790-4fc6-11de-a692-00144feabdc0.html" class="bodystrong">blocking internet sites including Twitter and Hotmail</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/14503d04-4f8f-11de-a692-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1">BBC News broadcasts were blacked out in Beijing on Monday night. Last Saturday’s edition of the Financial Times, which contained an interview with <A href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/19be8a24-4bdf-11de-b827-00144feabdc0.html" title="FT.com / Columnists / Lunch with the FT - Tea with the FT: Bao Tong" class="bodystrong">Bao Tong</A>, the most prominent Tiananmen-era dissident still residing in China, was either not delivered</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/14503d04-4f8f-11de-a692-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1">or censored</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/14503d04-4f8f-11de-a692-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1"><P>Blanket bans have returned to the internet in Beijing, replacing what had been a more sophisticated mix of self-censorship requirements for website hosts, news portals and bloggers.<SPAN> </SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/14503d04-4f8f-11de-a692-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1">however, the censors’ work is patchy. While Google News searches for topics unrelated to Tiananmen intermittently turn-up blank pages, a video of a Tiananmen memorial rally was still accessible</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E5ABB28A-9260-4434-AE96-C38188193EA6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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