Chinese censors block Obama's call to free the Web (Can't we do that here?)
Chinese censors block Obama's call to free the Web11/17/2009 | 07:53 AM BEIJING – President Barack Obama prodded China about Internet censorship and free speech, but the message was not widely heard in China where his words were blocked online and shown on only one regional television channel. **SNIP** Only local Shanghai TV carried the event live. It was streamed on two popular Internet portals and on the White House's Web site, which is not censored, though both the video and audio feeds were choppy and delayed inside China. The People's Daily online briefly summarized Obama as telling the crowd...
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