Chinese official says country uses sophisticated firewall to block “harmful information” from being distributed over the Internet. Liu Zhengrong, supervisor of Internet affairs for the information office of the Chinese State Council, says the controls are similar to European and U.S. laws. China has come under fire in recent weeks for its efforts to censor content on Microsofts MSN Spaces site, and Google’s Chinese language search site, Google.cn. Liu named pornography as a main cause of Chinese censorship, and noted that its concerns about this type of material are very different.”]
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