On October 21, 2005, Re****ters Without Borders issued a press release
describing the recent development that China censored the online
encyclopedia Wikipedia project.
Read the article in
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=15374
An outline of the article:
* Wikipedia has been unavailable in several provinces
including Shanghai since 18 October.
* China recently raised the issue of democracy by
publi****ng its first white paper entitled "The
construction of political democracy in China" on
19 October.
* Internet users trying to visit the Wikipedia site
since 18 October get an error message referring to
tem****ary connection problems for unknown reasons.
* Wikipedia was previously blocked by the Chinese
authorities in June and September 2004 because of
dissident political content.
Read the Wikipedia entry on "Tiananmen Square protests of 1989" in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989
