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Who needs a free press?

March 30, 2007 at 4:41 p.m.

Everybody needs a free press.

There was a weird, semi-celebratory jitter going around the China blogosphere for much of the past two days. Sometime Wednesday, BlogSpot came back from the Net Nanny's netherworld and into the off-blue light of the free-ish Internet. That we were all jumping for joy is telling: LiveJournal, Xanga, free Wordpress.com blogs, Wikipedia, BBC News too many others to count are still blocked. But at least one came back. And if I had to choose which to unblock, BlogSpot would be it, based solely on numbers.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad ...

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