By Kathy Avgerinos
The New York Times published a story about what has been popularly dubbed the "Great Firewall of China". Chinese Internet users claim that the government has been accelerating its censorship on potential sources of dissent, such as Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia, and Blogspot, as the Olympic Games in Beijing draw near. This crackdown has sparked much resentment among the population of Internet users, which has resulted in a unique resistance movement. The forms of resistance include lawsuits against government-owned Internet providers as well as a network of programmers who are developing codes to counteract the censorship. Such a campaign against government censorship is very uncommon in Communist China.
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