Friday, February 18, 2011

China Block Search Hillary Clinton on the Internet

A Chinese microblogging site, Sina block key words "Hillary Clinton" and "Hillary" a day after United States Secretary of State made a speech whose content it urged the Chinese government to end internet censorship.

"In accordance with the rules and regulations apply, no search results will be displayed," wrote Sina who provide services like Twitter.

The Chinese government is imposing a very strict censorship for internet activity. The government also routinely check the site and forcing site administrators to remove the political content that is considered positive.

Earlier this week, Hillary made a statement that says countries like China would face economic and social costs of long term and lead to civil unrest if the government continues to censor the Internet.

On this, Sina, the United States Embassy in Beijing trying to talk about Hillary's speech by the Chinese government.

"We are disappointed with the attitude of some of these sites," said U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman. "It is ironic that the Chinese government blocked an online discussion about Internet freedom."

Currently, China has become the largest Internet users in the world with 457 million users. Due to the application of such strict censorship, the public can not access Facebook and Twitter because of the two sites had been blocked. Sina own microblogging site users totaled about 50 million people and is expected to reach 100 million users in the first half of this year.