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China's leadership has regularly blocked online sites and blacked out TV networks. Here’s why.

1: The beginning: regulations China began Internet censorship with regulations, codified a year later, that have broad categories under which sites could be blocked. Visitors wait to take a turn surfing the Internet at an international computer exhibition in Beijing in 1996. The following are a few examples of censorship: Greg Baker/AP

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