Chinese Man Sues State-Owned Cell Phone Company For Blocking Google

jfruh writes China is notorious for censoring the Internet for its citizens, and access in the country became particularly spotty last year as the government tried to block any commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Tiannamen Square massacre. But now one Chinese man is striking back through the courts. A 26-year-old legal practitioner is suing his cell phone company, the government-owned China Unicom, and demanding a refund for periods in which he was unable to access Gmail or Google's Hong Kong search page.

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OTOH, if he's NOT crazy stupid...

[rmdingler]

This is a good sign for China.

That a citizen believes he can openly criticize his government without peril means, at the very least, that public perception of China is improving.

Not to force a Snowden parallel, but he believed something like this once.