It seems the GREAT online interactive reference site Wikipedia has been UNBLOCKED in China after previously being inaccessible. I guess we'll see how long this lasts. Last year when I was there, I was never able to access it. Even Hotmail was blocked while I was there, but there were several ways to access it indirectly. This is promising news. China has been censoring the web for some time, even employing some college students to be involved in the censorship. The arrest and incarceration of Liu Di, a psychology major at Bei ShiFan, made the world aware of how serious the Chinese were about censorship in 2002. China may be lacking in the amount of freedom we have in America, but it has been making progress since 1978 thanks to the leadership of Deng Xiaoping. I have great hope for the Hu Jintao government.
Monday, October 16, 2006
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