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   Lead paint

   

   Chinaman, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 4:02am

   
   

   Did you hear that they blocked a shipment of Chinese lead paint from entering the US?
   
   It was contaminated with toys.

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   Anonymous Coward, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 4:44am

   
   

   lol at lead shipment.
   
   hey Mike i guess you just got techdirt on the great firewall of china do not allow list :P

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   Null, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 5:58am

   
   

   "I'd imagine that will also be censored"
   
   It's a list of banned keywords, therefore already censored.

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   one guy

   

   in front of a tank, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 6:18am

   
   

   How soon before we see something similar in the us ?

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   Shawn, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 6:44am

   
   

   unfortunately,im using blogspot that was blocked by gfw.

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   The real truth about the US govt censorship progra

   

   Bob, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 6:44am

   
   

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   The previous post has been cleaned for your viewin

   

   USA, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 6:45am

   
   

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   keywords

   

   Iain, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 6:47am

   
   

   One of the keywords listed to be banned is: "key-words".
   
   LOL @ China.

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   Re:

   

   Charming Charlie, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 7:23am

   
   

   It's a list of banned keywords, therefore already censored. If I understand this comment corrently it is a reply to #2, and as someone posting from Beijing, I can assure you Techdirt is still accessable without a proxy.

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    Soon

    

    Joe Dirt, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 7:46am

    
    

    We should see this very soon. All the big players in search want the China market so they're developing censorship tech. I expect they'll be more than happy to deploy it here to protect the children.

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    Rekrul, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 7:51am

    
    

    Wouldn't it be simpler for China to issue a list of the stuff that they DON'T want blocked? The entire list should fit on a Post-It note...

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    Hory Mory!

    

    M. Thompson, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 8:23am

    
    

    Chinese Censor "Don't Crick that Rink!"
    
    They are just pissed off that they don't have the letter 'l' on their keyboards so they can't visit places like 'LinkedIn' cause 'RinkedIn' keeps returning errors.

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    Rekrul wrong

    

    mike allen, Feb 7th, 2008 @ 8:29am

    
    

    There are soooo many chinise government departments producing government propaganda (still more than UK or USA but only just) that you need a toilet roll to list them.

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    Censorship

    

    Chi Sun, Mar 12th, 2008 @ 6:01pm

    
    

    I'm using VPN services (OpenVPN account) to access any blocked site as in the case of you are in China or in USA. It requires some fee, but I think is still best service for such a deal.
    I use http://strongvpn.com

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