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China: Crackdown on Olympic-related video content

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 @ 10:43 UTC

by John Kennedy

Countries:: China
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Business, Film, Governance, Internet & Telecoms, Law, Media
Languages:: English
Special:: Olympics

This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters. · All posts

Was it footage of the Olympic torch relay that killed top video sharing website 56.com? Danwei's Eric Mu today reports that 20 such sites were recently censured for carrying “Olympic-related content”.

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