Bernard_Marx - 9:26 am on Sep 29, 2004 (gmt 0)

exactly what would be the point of google serving up search results from a domain you wouldn't be able to see anyway? ..and.. Serving up search results from them would be pointless.

The point is The Truth. Pretending these sites do not exist is collusion - plain & simple.

At least fellow humans living in China would know that their vision of the World was being twisted. Perhaps a small text message: "Banned by your government" would give them a fuller idea of the contempt that their 'representatives' hold them in.

The Chinese Government are the representatives of the Chinese people.

Whether any government could be said to be fully representative of its citizens is moot. Witness the extreme polarisation of opinion in The USA today. The Chinese Government don't even confuse the issue by having elections to argue about.

sigh...no politics, please.

Eh?

How could anybody possibly imagine this topic without politics?

The chinese people will have access to 99% of the information, that we in the West have.

Great. So they can have the sneakers, the mobile ringtones, and all that pap, but meaningful opinions from free-thinking individuals? ...well that's just 1% isn't it?