CN / EU – China’s censorship of Web unacceptable: “(Reuters)
EU’s telecoms chief Viviane Reding has said that China’s censorship of the Internet was ‘unacceptable’ and that the Beijing Olympics were a chance for the country to show its commitment to free flow of information. Reding, who is the European Commissioner for Information Society and Media said she regards the Internet as a free medium for expression and any curtailment of that is limiting the citizen’s right to information. ‘People should be free to receive information, we do not think blocking of sites for political reasons is the right way to proceed,’ Reding told Reuters. ‘We say, for instance, to the Chinese very clearly that their blocking of certain Internet content is absolutely unacceptable to us,’ she said.”

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