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Fri 01 Jan 2010China sticks to its guns in censorship row with Google
CHINA STUCK to its guns on its internet censorship policy yesterday, saying foreign web firms were welcome in China, but only if they obeyed the law.
In the government’s cautiously worded official responses, there was not a hint of compromise on lowering the Great Firewall of China, but China’s webizens remained defiantly supportive of Google’s threat to leave China over cyber attacks on human rights activists’ email accounts.
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