Introduction:
‘And of course, the information society’s very life blood is freedom. It is freedom that enables citizens everywhere to benefit from knowledge, journalists to do their essential work, and citizens to hold government accountable. Without openness, without the right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers, the information revolution will stall, and the information society we hope to build will be stillborn.’
- Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General
Internet censorship in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has, for long, been a debatable issue in the global world. Though the PRC has come a long way in technological development, it is still wary of the threat free information creates for its Communist regime. Hence it is of little surprise that the PRC government wants to put blinders on its Netizens. China's censors have installed what critics dub the ‘Great Firewall of China’ - a giant......
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