Citizen Journalism Combating Chinese Censorship

Recognising the threat of China’s growing online community, Chinese President Hu Jintao called in January for the Internet to be purified, and the government has since launched a number of online crackdowns. One cannot truly say that the Internet in China is becoming more and more free, because at the same time as the development of citizen journalists, the government finds ways of blocking or censoring content, said Julien Pain, who monitors Internet freedom issues for Reporters Without Borders