China Leads Backlash Against Internet Freedom, Media Group Says

I find stories like this sobering because they show how much people can take. People can live without freedom and keep ticking. Which means they often won't fight until the battle's been lost.

China is leading the fight by authoritarian states to control internet freedom and remains the world's leading jailer of journalists, a media rights' group said on Friday. One in three of the 134 journalists jailed worldwide is an internet blogger, online editor or web-based reporter, said the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The total number of journalists jailed for their work increased for the second year running, and China led the way with 31 recorded in prison on December 1, the group said in an annual report posted on its website, www.cpj.org.

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