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Saturday, March 20, 2004

Blogs as a political tool....

Associated Press
China shuts down Internet blogs over sensitive political content, watchdog asserts:
Friday March 19, 2:18 am ET
By Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press Writer

SHANGHAI, China (AP) -- China has shut down a pair of Web sites that were free-ranging user forums known as blogs, stepping up government attempts to control political discussion on the Internet, a media watchdog group reported even as one site reappeared Friday."