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Chinese Use Texting to Keep Protest Alive

Activists wielding cell phones and blogs circumvent censorship

By Sam Gale Rosen,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 28, 2007 12:56 PM CDT

(Newser) – Chinese activists used text messages and blog posts to organize and publicize a huge protest against the construction of a chemical plant, demonstrating continuing ingenuity in skirting government strictures against dissent in the media. Construction of the plant in the coastal town of Xiamen was...   Read full story »

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