Internet Blocks

In the past year I haven't noticed any letup in the amount of Internet censorship by the Chinese censors. The blocking of specific websites comes and goes but, overall, it's just as bad as it was last year. More than half the time, Google News is blocked. The BBC's news website is always blocked. Other sites that are blocked include the VOA, Wikipedia, My Space, most blogs (I can't even view my own blog), and most sites ending in .gov or .mil

All of this makes it very hard to get information in China. The absurdity of this comes home when your children, trying to do research for homework, can't get the information they need because the censors are blocking their access to entries about science or culture on Wikipedia. Children here can't even use MySpace to stay in touch with their friends around the world. You have to feel pity for a government that is so insecure that it has to keep children away from knowledge.