When Google made the surprising announcement on Tuesday that it would no longer censor search results in China, it was applauded by human rights advocates around the world. Since China isn’t likely to allow unfiltered results, which would bring up banned topics, Google would have to quit operating google.cn, its Chinese search engine.
But that may not be the end of the story. The very tech savvy are starting to work around the government’s filters. Is it just a matter of time before the technologists defeat censorship broadly? What kinds of technological advances would that involve? Or will governments like China be able to maintain strong censorship control with ever more advanced technology on their side?
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An interesting topic, approached from many different perspectives by the authors. It seems that the freedom created through the flow of information via the internet is coming up against the governmental doctrines of non-democratic nations. Opinions differ on how well the "Great Firewall of China" will hold, and how easy it is to work around it. People want access to the great amount of information available today, and will find a way to do it, legally or not.
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