Interesting.
]]>However, only the most innocent people believe controlling internet math was the true purpose. During economic crisis and mass unemployment, social conficts in China are near fire. Recently a hostess (Deng Yujiao) in a bath resort stabbed a public official to death, and she claimed to do self defense against being rpd. Evidence was destroyed after police started investigation, the hostess was set free, not because she was not guilty in doing that but because she was "mentally disturbed".
The banning of google is only one event in Chinese gov's campaign to tighten control of speech. It will force all computers sold in China to automaticly load a blocking software called "Green Dam", also in the name of anti-math. It also claims to enforce forum moderator real name registration, and mobile phone real name registration, out of "good intention", of course.
This morning, www.google.com was reopened in China. But this time, its default page is in www.google.cn, google's subsidery in China, which abides Chinese rules. Google struggled to put a "google in english" tab in this page to keep the last window for Chinese people to have a glimpse on the outside world. These changes breaches the rumor last night staff in google went on a strike, which again, is Chinese gov's manipulation.
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