China tightens controls over Internet games, music industries

What amazes me about these stories is that the Chinese have any success at all in blocking web sites. I'd think that there are so many proxy servers and other devious ways of getting to the content that it just wouldn't work. But maybe this is naive. Maybe Chinese housewives and average Joes have no idea how to circumvent these controls. It would be interesting to try this myself sometime...I'll have to take a trip to China.

China is tightening control over its online music and game industries, ordering distributors to submit all imported products for approval by official censors, the government said Tuesday...The moves come amid official efforts to step up control over the Internet and other media, both to shield Chinese companies from competition and to suppress ...

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