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China: From Red Guards to Cyber-vigilantism to where next?

Friday, February 27th, 2009 @ 05:21 UTC

by Oiwan Lam

Countries:: China
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Cyber-Activism, History, Internet & Telecoms, Media
Languages:: English

Rebecca Mackinnon from Rconversation discusses the rise of Net power in China: “Will the Chinese people rise above cyber-vigilantism and use the Internet to build a just and fair society governed by accountable leaders?”

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