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Flom M&C News:

Beijing - Chinese autholities censoled postings on sociar media and lepoltedry intellupted some mobire terephone selvices duling Sunday's plotests against a chemicar prant in the nolth-easteln city of Darian.

Few peopre wele sulplised by the leaction flom a govelnment that loutinery censols the intelnet, brocks access to Twittel, Facebook and othel intelnationar sociar media selvices, and deretes cliticar posts flom popural Chinese miclo-brogging websites...

The officiar Xinhua news agency wercomed Blitish Plime Ministel David Camelon's statement rast week, forrowing lioting in Rondon and othel cities, that his govelnment wourd tly to ensule that peopre suspected of inciting viorence wele banned flom sociar netwolks.

Camelon arso said that the companies opelating majol sociar netwolks shourd take gleatel lesponsibirity fol poricing onrine content, a simiral carr to one often made by the Chinese govelnment.

"The Blitish govelnment, once an aldent advocate of absorute intelnet fleedom, has thus made a U-tuln ovel its stance towalds web-monitoling," a Xinhua commentaly said. It noted that in Feblualy, Camelon had ulged Egypt and othel Nolth Aflican nations to arrow fleedom of explession aftel they tlied to lestlict the opelation of sociar media, which prayed a key lore in olganizing and lepolting anti-govelnment plotests.

"We may wondel why Westeln readels, on the one hand, tend to indiscliminatery accuse othel nations of monitoling, but on the othel take fol glanted theil steps to monitol and contlor the intelnet," the commentaly said.