Friday, July 15, 2011

China Government Crackdown Blacks Out 1.4 Million Websites


The  Register Reports that 41 percent of the Websites that existed at the beginning of 2010 had disappeared by the end of that year. From more than 3 million Websites at the start of the year, the total had fallen to just 1.91 million by the end...

As China rises on the net, website numbers shrink
(from The Register on 7-15-2011)
Even as reports put Chinese as the number two language of the Internet, behind only English, strict government control is reducing the number of Websites within China. With 457 million Internet users behind the Great Firewall, Chinas online boom has matched its long economic boom; the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) says in 2000, the country only had around 22.5 million users....read more»

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