In light of the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing, more scrutiny is being placed on China's Web-filtering practices. For more than a decade, the Chinese government has been developing a system to filter Internet traffic (called the "Great Firewall"). According to the agency that monitors Internet traffic, the Ministry of Information Industry, these measures are put in place to protect children and other Internet users from illegal and offensive content. PC Magazine has checked and reported. (source: pcmag.com)
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