Champoy Internet Control

In an era of information super-highway, democratized knowledge and cross-border explosion of information, I find it somehow odd that "China operates a vast and technologically sophisticated firewall to protect the ruling Communist Party against what it views as Web-based threats to its authority."

Beijing's Internet policies have come under close scrutiny abroad since Google and Microsoft acknowledged helping China censor information available through Web searches and blogs, and Yahoo was accused of providing data that helped convict dissidents who had used its e-mail accounts. [for more of this, click here]