The Financial Times reports on a disturbing development. The BBC has started a new self censoring website for China at BBCChina.com.cn. This will run alongside BBCChinese.com which has apparently long been censored.
Compare this on the new site:
to this on the uncensored version, which relates to press censorship in China:
While this is not as bad as Google’s censorship because the BBC was already blocked and because the BBC is not a gateway to the rest of the web I am still personally worried by this trend.
[Via Google Blogoscoped]
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