China furthers the blocking of information

For those that don't know, China is the biggest Communist, *cough* I mean "democratic" nation in the world. As such, they are really big into censoring everything their people see, *cough* I mean free speech and freedom of information.

Over the past years China has been increasing the censorship they have placed on the internet. Consider it a huge digital wall. Much like their Great Wall, this wall is designed to keep out a "threat", only this threat isn't angry Sword wielding Mongolians, it's information about the world that the propagandists deem too dangerous and/or not needed.

It seems that recently China bas begun the internet embargo of information received via the international Google website search engine. While the standard international version seems to be slamming against the mack-daddy of all firewalls, the censored and government approved google (google.cn) is still fully operational.

It's hard to believe that things like this still happen, and for some reason I keep thinking back to this really amazing book I read once, about a crazed government who had total control and everything not sactioned by the powers of the nation were a crime. But naw, things like that don't really happen, I must be imagining things.

\\drew