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Date Added: April 27, 2008 12:21:02 PM
If an Internet user in China searches for the word "persecution," he or she is likely to come up with a link to a blank screen that says "page cannot be displayed." The same is true of searches for "Tibetan independence," "democracy movements" or stranger sounding terms such as "oriental red space time" -- code for an anti-censorship video made secretly by reporters at China's state TV station.

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