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Quote of the day: A 'spiritual home' gone from the cyberworld

CNET News staff

In a Reuters story about the closing of the Century China Web site--a popular forum for liberal critics of the ruling Communist Party--writers and dissidents described the site as one of the few refuges for relatively unfettered views in their censorship-bound country.

"The shutdown of Century China is just another instance of the Chinese government suppressing the freedom of its people," read a petition calling the Web site "the one spiritual home we had in the cyberworld."

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