Security and Privacy

It is really not surprising to me that Wikipedia web site got blocked again by Great Firewall of China on Friday. Given the current political trend in China, I could not imagine a sudden change in the government policy of blocking high profile user community web sites, such as Wikipedia, blogspot. When riots in Guangdong, Sichuan are widely reported by BBC and New York Times, Chinese government does have an urgent need to prevent "bad" news from reaching its own people.

Also, check out William Moss's analysis on this issue.

[update]
NY Times did a report on self-censoring of Chinese language version of Wikipedia. Overall, I find quality of articles on Chinese Wikipedia leaves a lot to be desired.

Labels: Censorship, Great Firewall