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Obama to China: Uncensored Internet is healthy

SHANGHAI (AP) -- President Barack Obama gave China a pointed, unexpected nudge to stop censoring the Internet access of its own people, offering an animated defense of the tool that helped him win the White House - and telling his tightly controlled... ...full story at AP

from AP on Mon, Nov 16 2009

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