August 2, 2006 7:37 AM PDT

Chinese intellectuals decry closure of Web site

Forum for political critics--"the one spiritual home we had in the cyberworld"--disappears from computer screens.

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Typical
Typical of the appaling Chinese governments policies. I wished the people signing the petition luck, but to be honest I am not holding my breath.
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another win for keeping the populous ignorant
I hear ya. If a petition was all it took.. But paper and people are about as equally capable of stopping a tank.

We can only hope that information as an entity in it's own right with an instinctual drive to be free will continue to have it's small escapes.
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