Digital Journal TV: Chinese Netizens and the Great Firewall of China

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The recent capture of protesters in China has raised questions about censorship in the country. But savvy bloggers are finding ways around Big Brother, and some say they could bring about the crumbling of the Great Firewall of China.

Digital Journal - China loves crackdowns. On activists, bloggers and anyone with a dissenting opinion. And so with the Olympics only one year away, critics are now concerned about the Chinese government's censorship of the Internet and media.

The government has promised Western media the freedom to report and travel around the country, but locals have not been given the same rights.

In China, Internet searches filter out content not permitted by the country's "Propaganda Department", bloggers are restricted from accessing certain domains and some reports suggest Chinese citizens have even been sent to jail for speaking out against the Chinese government.

In this episode of Digital Journal TV, we look into the growing concerns about the Asian giant's censorship and how savvy bloggers are now starting to evade Big Brother. Using techniques similar to North American spammers, and by connecting to computers in the West, the population of 30 million bloggers (and growing) in China are finding ways to get around censorship.

And with the Olympics around the corner, the Chinese government could see an explosion of citizen journalism throughout the country; voices no longer satisfied with being smothered by political censorship. Some now say this growing demand for freedom on the Internet, could spell the end of the Great Firewall of China.

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