China's Netizens Declare they will Fight Back - by Rick Martin
With the recent protests in Iran, there has been a lot of discussion in the news of late about the power of technology in circumventing government control and censorship. Of course no one knows this kind of censorship better than Chinese netizens, especially after these past few weeks that saw the blocking of many popular social media sites and the introduction of the 'Green Dam' filtering software. In the face of such censorship, some more creative Chinese netizens (I have no idea who, or how many) have used Google Docs to release a declaration of war against this government imposed internet filtering. While I don't like to get too political on this site, I do think this document is worth republishing. It sheds light on hypes a fascinating battle over a group's right to use the internet freely as the rest of the world does (relatively speaking). And what's more, it's very eloquently written with lots of juicy ominous drama to boot!
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