Political signals are never easy to read in Beijing. But it sure looks like big news that highly placed editors and intellectuals have dared to protest against the Chinese government's recent crackdown on a newspaper for publishing a critical essay.It could be, despite the government's attempts at censorship, (See China's Virtual Cops, Financial Times) that the internet is giving the next generation the tools and the courage to connect with each other and the outside world, just as the samizdat functioned in the old USSR. Apparently even NPR did something useful by interviewing a recently fired editor.
So maybe Google made the right decision to make a deal with the government of China to offer some kind of information platform.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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