Twitter and Google are helping to end China’s stranglehold on information and accelerate the process of democratisationGoogle has been widely celebrated for its loud refusal to continue censoring its search results in China. It is still unclear whether Google will continue to operate in China, but in any event we are not about to see much change in China’s internet policy. More likely, all this “foreign meddling” will merely cause the Chinese government to dig in its heels.Even if Google does ultimately leave China, the game is not over. Western companies can promote internet freedom from the outside, by providing useful technology as well as the keys to access it. Call this “Twitter diplomacy”.To read this report in The Guardian in full, see:
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/28/china-google-twitter-democratisation
China can’t control the net for ever
Google has been widely celebrated for its loud refusal to continue censoring its search results in China. It is still unclear whether Google will continue to operate in China, but in any event we are not about to see much change in China’s internet policy. More likely, all this “foreign meddling” will merely cause the Chinese government to dig in its heels.