Liz - Google and China

TIME Magazine has some great articles on China and the Internet. I thought the following was interesting - it was pulled from the article, "A Brief History of Chinese Internet Censorship" dated 3/18/09 (link is below) ...

"A recent Pew Research Center survey found that 80% of Chinese think the Internet should be managed or controlled, and 85% think the government should be responsible for doing it."

The Pew Research Center is based out of Washington DC, but were those results filtered like everything else coming out of and going in to China? Did they alter their numbers to advocate what they do? You run the risk of arrest if you go against the Chinese government. The citizens of China are getting access to a greater amount of worldwide news even with the censorship and the existence of the Great Firewall of China. As Google puts it, "offering a limited set of information in China is better than no information at all." I guess something is better than nothing, but talk about Big Brother - most of the time people have to give up personal information to gain access to the internet.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1885961,00.html