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Bloggers in China sound off on SOPA blackout - Los Angeles Times
Still, Wen supports U.S. activists challenging the bills, saying its a slippery slope to lesser web access. He said Chinas so-called Great Firewall, which blocks access to many foreign sites like Facebook and Twitter, was first billed as a strategy to stop piracy and pornography.
Now its being abused and extended to thousands of websites, he said.
Ironically, Chinas 513 million web-users have relatively free access when it comes to the very sites targeted by the, now faltering, Protect IP Act (PIPA) and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Those include BitTorrent sites such as Extratorrent and sellers of counterfeit goods like Taobao.
Bloggers in China sound off on SOPA blackout - Los Angeles Times
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