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China heavily filters "Egypt" from search engines to prevent awakening
by Joseph Ernest February4, 2011
Newscast Media--Afraid that images of protests in Egypt will create a mass awakening like the one in Tiananmen Square that happened in 1989, Beijing has blocked any Egypt-related searches from surfacing in Chinese search engines. Because the Internet is regulated by the state, over 400 million Internet users in China do not have much of a choice but comply with government regulations.
China has blocked the keyword "Egypt" from China's two most popular search engines: www.sina.com and www.sohu.com . As the Chinese government evacuates its citizens from Egypt, the state media has largely focused on the instability that has ensued since the protests began, and has neglected to inform the viewers about the youth-led protests that are happening across the nation by the hundreds of thousands.
Beijing is justifiably concerned.. A few days ago, a video emerged on twitter showing a demonstrator blocking the path of a rolling water canon. Internet users across the world immediately twittered about Egypt's "Tiananmen Moment," playing off the infamous photo of a student blocking a tank during China's aborted pro-democracy protests of 1989. Add Comments>>
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