Let a Thousand Filters Bloom

Anonymous Patron writes The Washington Post’s Anne Applebaum loks at the great Firewall of China. Without question, China’s Internet filtering regime is “the most sophisticated effort of its kind in the world,” in the words of a recent report by Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The system involves the censorship of Web logs, search engines, chat rooms and e-mail by “thousands of public and private personnel.” It also involves Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google.”