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Internet Users Slam Chinese Censorship

As top sites are banned, web surfers rail against 'Great Firewall'

By Dustin Lushing,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 20, 2007 4:32 PM CDT

(Newser) – Frustration with government curbs on the Internet is growing among China's 140M web users. Wikipedia has been banned, and the censors recently shuttered photo-sharing web site Flickr, after a user uploaded a picture of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Tens of thousands of human monitors...   Read full story »

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