Great Firewall of China

This story is about a week old but recently in China, the government has allegedly denied Internet access to a wide variety of religious websites, including sites concerning religious freedom and the Tibetan Dalai Lama. The Forum 18 News Service reports that the Internet censorship is an effort by the Chinese government to control Internet usage in a country where nearly 80 million people are connected to the web. That number is expected to double in the next six months. Interestingly, China’s Golden Shield firewall only blocks religious freedom websites written in Chinese languages but allows such websites written in European languages.

So next time your'e surfing be thankful can read this and the majority of the internet. In South Africa we have other restrictions however. Did you know VoIP is illegal in SA. But that's another issue for another time.