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  • Aussie Olympian blogs muzzled, not censored

    Australian athletes' blogs will not be censored during the Beijing Olympics, according to the Australian Olympic Committee president, but the International Olympic Committee is preventing them from profiting from the games' name.

  • You can't censor the Internet, says Gates

    Government attempts to censor Internet sites are useless because people can still use e-mail or other means to spread banned information, Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates said.

  • China reconnects foreign affairs site

    An Australian government Web site was back online for China's 22 million Internet users for the first time in 18 months after complaints to Chinese officials over censorship.

  • US Congress blasts Yahoo over cyberdissident row

    Yahoo's top executives faced a US Congressional hearing yesterday after being accused of providing false information to the House last year over its role in the arrest of Chinese cyberdissident Shi Tao.

  • When blogging can get you locked up

    Javad Gholam Tamayomi, Omid Memarian, Shahram Rafihzadeh, Hanif Mazroi, Rozbeh Mir Ebrahimi, Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh and Fereshteh Ghazi are some of the most courageous people you've never met.

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