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Don Smith
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Does anyone know whether OpEdNews is censored in China? Â I'd bet it IS censored. I found the following OpEdNews article about censorship in China:

 I too am a Grass Mud Horse - Cao Ni Ma!

as well as this article by Human Rights Watch:

 China: Tiananmen's Unhealed Wounds

Even if China censors OpEdNews and numerous similar sites, I bet we can still beat the censors, by encoding messages in images and using messages that are difficult to interpret via character recognition.  For example:

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If people do similar encoding on all sorts of pages, it would be very difficult for Chinese censors to suppress critical information without also suppressing lots of useful information.
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