How is china censoring the internet?

[Louisee]

iv recently started studying internet regulations for my A2 media but i want to know more about how china is censoring the internet. I know they have different sites for facebook and twitter etc but what are these sites called? and what sorts of things are blocked and why? iv tried looking online but there is so much information about all the different topics within censoring the internet, its hard to find the right thing especially when trying to get through all the news reports there is on the topic, hope someone can help me understand

[jotacar]

Get someone to tell you how Google works.

There are dozens of items on this topic.

[Jack H]

That's why they call it research hon, you have to learn to trawl through stuff and make discoveries...

[xomoc]

How about an article on Corporate complicity in Internet censoring?
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?a..._id=964478

Use google scholar to avoid news articles.

http://scholar.google.ca/

[董孜恺]

hi，i live in Hubei province，let me help you
1.facebook=http://renren.com/ twitter=http://weibo.com youtube=www.youku.com
2.all about political ，its complicated

[Naomi]

They use equipment made and sold by Cisco for something called "deep packet inspection" that filters content transiting over digital networks.

America... land of the free (?)