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agreed to restore Wang's blog, however, after he threatened to file a lawsuit against them, according to a January 15 Epoch Times transcript of a Radio Free Asia report. Wang moved his blog to, but that company also shut down his blog, according to a December 22 Radio Free Asia report (in Chinese). RSF cited Wang, a well-known Chinese intellectual, as saying he was "very annoyed" with Tianya, the Internet company hosting his site and with the Hainan authorities for shutting down his blog. The shutdown also occurred less than a week after Wang posted a story that police in Chengdu had detained at least 10 people who were peacefully protesting the government's handling of burials and funerals. On November 3, RSF reported that authorities in Hainan province shut down Wang Yi's blog () just days after it was nominated for the "freedom of expression" category in a blog contest being organized by the German public radio station Deutsche Welle. Reports on January 13 and 21 from the Voice of America and Boxun (both in Chinese), respectively, stated that the site was still inaccessible in China as of the end of that month, and CECC staff testing indicates that the site remains inaccessible as of mid-February.
RSF said that Chinese authorities had previously blocked Wikipedia in June and September 2004 because of dissident political content. On October 21, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reported that Internet users trying to visit the Wikipedia Web site (an online encyclopedia) since October 18 got an error message referring to temporary connection problems for unknown reasons. During the past three months Chinese authorities have taken the following actions to shut down and block Web sites in an attempt to silence critics and restrict citizens' access to information:
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