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China: Internet control after Xiamen protest

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Under a new city regulation [1], online users would have to use their real names when posting messages on more than 100,000 Web sites registered in Xiamen”, a Southern Chinese city where citizens used blogs, chatrooms and SMS to organize a protest [2] against a planned construction of a toxic chemical plant.