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Google gives Chinese Web users glimpse into censorship - Blog - Committee to Protect Journalists

7.6.12

Google gives Chinese Web users glimpse into censorship - Blog - Committee to Protect Journalists: In China, people know enough not to take to the streets to commemorate the brutal crackdown on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Beijing is very quiet in the days before and after June 4. The Internet is a different story.

For all the talk about Great Firewalls, The Golden Shield Project, and other manifestations of online censorship, a significant section of China's Internet community is notorious for finding creative ways around the censors. Their efforts are an indicator of just how hard it is for the authorities to stay ahead of the masses when it comes to quelling popular anger.


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