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Even a censored Internet has opened up a world for Chinese users

By Steven Mufson
Thursday, January 21, 2010; A12

BEIJING — One of China’s most popular bloggers, Han Han, posted a Lasix cod next day delivery satirical essay this week in which he imagined headlines about China’s censored Internet in a post-Google era:

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Hu, of Beijing University, said Google had had “huge influence” by “providing good tools for a wide number of users.”

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Researchers Wang Juan and Zhang Mei contributed to this report.