It now attracts more foreign investment than any other country in the world as international companies are increasingly attracted to a huge potential market and a source of cheap labor.
In recent years, China has made enormous strides in economic development and modernization, particularly in urban areas.
Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. The report vividly illustrates how various companies, including Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google, and Skype block terms they believe the Chinese government will want them to censor. Research was performed through interviews and extensive testing of search engines in China, and includes 18 screen shots to illustrate examples of censorship. In this 149-page report, Human Rights Watch documents how extensive corporate and private sector cooperation, including by some of the world's major Internet companies, enables this system of censorship.
Human Rights Watch, Race to the Bottom: Corporate Complicity in Chinese Internet Censorship, 10 August 2006, C1808, available at: Ĭhina's system of Internet censorship and surveillance, popularly known as the "Great Firewall," is the most advanced in the world.
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