US in new push to break China internet firewall

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    11 May 2011

    THE US plans to pump millions of dollars into new technology to break through internet censorship overseas amid a heightened crackdown on dissent in China.

    State Department officials said they would give $US19 million ($17.56 million) to efforts to evade internet controls in China, Iran and other authoritarian states that block online access to politically sensitive material.