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China's latest export: web censorship - Times Online
has imprisoned 50 people for what they have posted on the web. It is tempting to force all this into a Cold War template. In the West we have a democratic web, dedicated to political freedom, commercialism and barelyOpposed to this is a heavily censored and centralised model of web access which is spilling out into Cuba, southeast Asia, theresistance may be the least attractive option. Allowing unchecked web traffic runs counter to the deep-seated desire for controlunelected ones. Last year, the US Government outlawed online gambling and the EU indicated a desire to regulate YouTube and otherindicate a willingness to extend national boundaries onto the web. Western democracies may not like what China is doing in
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