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U.S. Firms Help China Keep Control of the Web

A New York Times article by Tom Zeller Jr., via The International Herald Tribune, reports that:

It was not so long ago that the Internet was seen as a trap for China. The country desperately needed to foster economic growth, and in the early 1990s much of the globe was plugging itself in.

Sooner or later, the thinking went, China would have to plug into the Web, too, and however efficiently its leaders might have controlled information in the old days, they would be no match for this new democratic beast, decentralized and crackling with opinion and information from the four corners of the earth.

Things did not exactly turn out that way.

posted by Fergie @ 1/15/2006 11:50:00 AM