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June 8, 2006

China and the internet (again)

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Posted by Rolf Kleef

It's a few days after commemoration of the Tiananmen massacre, and that puts China's internet situation back in the spotlight, of course. The dust of earlier debates about Google in China have settled, but, as was to be expected, google.com now seems to be unavailable for lots of Chinese internet users. Danny Sullivan reports on Search Engine Watch about Sergey Brin's moves to "explain" all of this, and, to demonstrate how well-informed the political moves of Brin are, the Washington Post painted him as "A Tourist In D.C.".

Wouldn't it be better if folks in the position of Sergey focus on making their products and technology difficult to censor, and team up with the political lobbying of other organisations to mobilise against the bad plans of law-makers and governments? Help to boost the efforts of people like Jens Galschiot in Denmark, who now has collected an archive of newspaper clippings of the Tiananmen massacre on his "Art in Defense of Humanism" site.

We can expand the thinking in "The Movement as a Network" to cover other areas than the environment as well, and build "civil society 2.0" (I'm a bit in the 2.0 mood these days...): a well-knit network in society, of companies, civil groups, individuals, organisations, governments, teaming up to make this world a better place for everyone.

Let's work on the “See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" first, and allow people to report, research, express, communicate, document. Maybe that helps to inspire (or force) others to "Do no evil" as Google likes to, themselves.

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