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Why Is China Blocking Skype?

For nearly a month, Skype has been unavailable to many Chinese consumers, The New York Times reports. “Skype, which is owned by Microsoft, still functions in China, and its fate in the country is not yet clear,” it writes. “But its removal from the app stores is the most recent example of a decades-long push by China’s government to control and monitor the flow of information online.”

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