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Wednesday 25 November 2009, 5:37 PM
Opera censors Chinese content
Opera has updated the Chinese version of its mobile browser to stop users accessing restricted content.
Opera Mini was updated on Friday from an international to a Chinese version, the BBC reported on Tuesday. This version no longer allows users to access Facebook, the BBC said.
Previously Opera Mini had run on Opera servers located outside the country, bypassing the Great Firewall of China, the BBC added.
Opera joins other search companies in censoring Chinese content. Microsoft's Bing censors Chinese search results even outside of China, according to Ars Technica, while Google set up Google.cn in 2006 partly to censor itself on behalf of the Chinese government, the BBC reported.
Opera Mini was updated on Friday from an international to a Chinese version, the BBC reported on Tuesday. This version no longer allows users to access Facebook, the BBC said.
Previously Opera Mini had run on Opera servers located outside the country, bypassing the Great Firewall of China, the BBC added.
Opera joins other search companies in censoring Chinese content. Microsoft's Bing censors Chinese search results even outside of China, according to Ars Technica, while Google set up Google.cn in 2006 partly to censor itself on behalf of the Chinese government, the BBC reported.
PreviousComments on this post
For all its might China would have zero strength if no one purchased from them, same can be said of any one country.
Good lord. I visited China 25 years ago as a backpacker when the country was just opening up. It seems like the last quarter century hasn't allowed them to progress as much as we would have all hoped.
Ah but you can still get a Big Mac value meal just off Tiananmen Square the tourist services will tell you.
谢谢艾德里安
