BBC News - China warns US over Clinton's web freedom call

Twitter is blocked in China but similar local services have tens of millions of users

China has warned the US not to use calls for internet freedom as an excuse to meddle in other countries' affairs.

The foreign ministry comments came after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced an initiative to help dissidents around the world get past government internet controls.

Since Mrs Clinton's speech, comments about it have been removed from China's popular Twitter-like microblog sites.

The US ambassador to China said online embassy comments had also been deleted. [...]

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