Wikipedia allowed in China

Posted on April 7, 2008 at 3:02 pm.
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Chinese authorities have lifted a block on the English-language version of online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Still politically sensitive topics such as Tibet and Tiananmen Square are not allowed to appear. Wikipedia, which is written collaboratively by volunteers, has more than 2 million articles in English. Wikipedia,YouTube and Flickr have been periodically blocked before in China.

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