The Guardian
Freedom is not found online: After four years of running a search engine in China, Google last week relocated it to Hong Kong. On the Chinese mainland, Google had been self-censoring search results to keep on the right side of the Communist party; now that it has moved offshore the entire service will face interruptions from the Great Firewall – a massive, sophisticated system that monitors Chinese surfing of any websites outside the domestic internet. What you’re seeing here is not just the humbling of the Don’t-Be-Evil brigade; it’s yet another defeat of the idea that to bring democracy to foreign dictatorships, you simply add the internet.
