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...Additional reporting by Asser Khattab in Beirut, Kathrin Hille in Moscow, Mehreen Khan in Brussels and Henry Mance in London...
...Rebecca MacKinnon explains in her 2005 paper on blogs and censorship that the Chinese government “outsourced the censorship and policing of most Chinese weblogs to blog-hosting businesses....
...The party “has adapted to the internet much more successfully than most western observers realise”, argues Rebecca MacKinnon, an expert on the internet in China, in a paper for a recent conference....
...“All human beings I’ve heard from in China say it’s not blocked,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, a China expert and fellow at the New America Foundation....
...“In the immediate term, clearly the Chinese net user loses,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, an expert on the China internet. “In the longer term, the impact is really hard to predict.”...
...It has been the case for years that users of public proxies had to switch frequently as they got blocked,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, an expert on the internet in China....
...Rebecca McKinnon, an internet expert at the University of Hong Kong, said China stood out for the scale and lack of transparency of its filtering....
...Ed Crooks and Rebecca Bream teamed up to ask a pertinent question: why is it so difficult to fill vacant chairmanships at top UK companies?...
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