February 2003
The Weakening Links
U.S. law is disturbingly supportive of Internet censorship.
By Seth Shulman
The Western world was rightly concerned last year when China blocked its citizens' access to Google, the Internet's ubiquitous search engine. In addition to raising a hue and cry in the United States, a bevy of "hacktivists" scrambled to set up mirrored Google sites to thwart China's effort. Now China no longer blocks Google outright: it's just more selective in its censorship. If, in China, you type in "Falun Gong," the name of a dissident Chinese religious group, your Google search yields virtually no links. Most of us would agree this is a misguided effort by the Chinese government to suppress information, right?
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