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China Blocks Web Searches About Protests

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @11:13AM from the must-want-users-to-make-their-own dept.

itwbennett writes "China is blocking searches on Google and microblogs for Zengcheng, a city in the country's Guangdong province, where protests have erupted against local authorities. The move is part of an effort to suppress information on the rioting."

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Re:Quite the pro-business, anti-citizen country th by Anonymous Coward · 2011-06-14 11:59 · Score: 5, Interesting

Do we really encourage this behavior by outsourcing work to China? It could be argued that this helps their situation.
Sure, "our" factories over there contribute to the Chinese government's budget, but it also contributes to the overall well being of the average Chinese person. More well fed, more education, and more opportunity. I can't help but think that this encourages liberalization in the long term more than anything.