Yet another reason why it's a bad idea to implement any programs to either limit the internet or hand power over to one person, as Joe Lieberman wants to do. It's simply not what one does in a supposed democracy. Radio Free Asia:
However, online activists said many comments in support of the Egyptian protesters had already been removed from forums and microblogging sites.
Chinese official media coverage has focused on efforts by tour companies and airlines to retrieve dozens of Chinese tourists from Egypt in the midst of the upheavals in Cairo.
The ruling Communist Party generally limits coverage of major confrontations between governments and citizens to an officially approved angle, and seeks instead to limit the range of public opinion on the topic, experts said.
"There are some websites on which people are finding it hard to run searches using the word 'Egypt,'" said Yang Dali of the University of Chicago.
