Google announced that its search engine would be made available to China's 100 million users with restrictions on politically sensitive terms and websites mandated by Beijing.(The Week)(Brief article)

* Google announced that its search engine would be made available to China's 100 million users with restrictions on politically sensitive terms and websites mandated by Beijing. China's efforts to build a great wall around the Internet are probably vain in the long run, for though you can block the threats you know, you cannot block the threats you don't. (Czarist censors kept The Wealth of Nations out of Russia, while passing Das Kapital.) But the paradox of ignorance works both ways: Clever and determined Chinese will circumvent the barriers, but what about ordinary ones? In the short run of a ...