Citizen Journalism Combating Chinese Censorship

teh_commodore writes to tell us that Breitbart has a look at how Citizen Journalism is shining a whole new light on China. "Recognizing the threat of China's growing online community, Chinese President Hu Jintao called in January for the Internet to be 'purified', and the government has since launched a number of online crackdowns. [...] 'One cannot truly say that the Internet in China is becoming more and more free, because at the same time as the development of citizen journalists, the government finds ways of blocking or censoring content,' Pain said."

Re:Do they....

[mrjb]

Has anybody forgot Tiananmen Square? What square? According to the Ministery of Truth, it never happened.

Re:How Is This News For Nerds??

[mrjb]

There's not really any tech angle here. You've never heard of The Great Firewall of China, I suppose.