As Beijing steps up its online content control in the wake of the middle east uprisings a key e-commerce company has said it will ban the sale of software and other mechanisms to evade the state censorship apparatus or give unfettered access to the internet.
Beijing, like many similar single party regimes, has watched what has happened in the Arab Spring and the role of social media in the uprisings that have brought down the Egyptian Government and appear to have all but ended Libya’s autocracy.
Now Time reports, Taobao.com, part of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, has announced it has banned the sale of circumvention instruments of its own accord and had not received any official instructions.
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