Scientific Dictatorship

Skype, the Internet telephone service, has been made illegal in China as the country continues to shut itself off from the world.

In the latest move dashing Western Internet company hopes of breaking into China, it was announced on Thursday that all Internet phone calls would be banned, apart from those made over two state-owned networks, China Unicom and China Telecom.

"[This] is expected to make services like Skype unavailable in the country," reported the People's Daily, the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party.

Websites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are already blocked in China and Google closed its Chinese servers last year after heavy government pressure...