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| Subject: China activist backs Google re state censorship Wed Feb 10, 2010 1:32 am | |
| ONE of China's most controversial artists on Wednesday spoke out in support of US Internet giant Google in its standoff with Beijing, and said his Gmail accounts had been breached by hackers.
In a commentary in The Wall Street Journal, Ai Weiwei said Google had set an important example for the Chinese people by challenging state censorship at the risk of sacrificing its place in the world's largest online market.
Mr Ai - who has a popular, but often censored, blog on which he writes political commentaries - said two of his Google email accounts were hacked from October, with messages transferred to an unknown address.
The artist warned that China itself could not long prosper by persisting with broad censorship. 'The question then is how a state based on limiting information flows and freedom of speech can remain powerful. And if it can, what kind of monster it will become,' he wrote.
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