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Article: CHINA AGAIN STARTS PREVENTING ACCESS TO WEB SITES
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- The Hindustan Times
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- December 17, 2008
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New York, Dec. 17 -- (ANI): Internet experts have said that China has quietly begun preventing access again to Web sites that it had stopped blocking during the Olympic Games in Beijing in August.
Liu Jianchao, a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, said at his twice-weekly news conference on Tuesday in Beijing that the Chinese Government had a right to censor Web sites that violated the country's laws."
He added "some Web sites," which he did not identify, had violated China's law against secession by suggesting that there were two Chinas - a reference to the Beijing government's longstanding position that mainland ...