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Blogs tapped vs censorship in China

06/27/07

Posted under Citizen Journalism, News

THIS news item attests to the power of citizen journalism in circumventing censorship laws that might shackle mainstream media.

BEIJING–In the strictly controlled media world of communist China, “citizen journalism” is beating a way through censorship, breaking taboos and offering a pressure valve for social tensions.

In one striking example this month, the Internet was largely responsible for breaking open a slave scandal in two Chinese provinces that some local authorities had been complicit in.

A letter posted on the Internet by 400 parents of children working as slaves in brickyards was the trigger for the national press to finally report on the scandal that some rights groups say had been going on for years.

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