The article I found about the Great Firewall of China talked about how the Communist governement of China has restricted its citizens not only from certain topics through search engines like Google and Yahoo but from other Internet services such as Skype. Skype attempted to join with a Beijing company named TOMO in order to provide its services in China but failed to do so because they would be underneath the same censorship policies as any other website or blog server that can be attained in China. Even companies like MSN are required to follow certain censorship policies to make sure certain terms do not appear in e-mails or over instant messenger (IM). When the companies themselves are not making sure these censors are put into place, the Chinese government has at their disposal many other computers for the sole purpose of filtering websites for these illegal terms, such as the "Three T's" we have talked about in class. Although many companies do not wish to abide by such policies, and many countries would view this act of censorship as an offense against human rights, no major action has been taken to change such policies enacted by the Chinese government. This is only one of the many violations China has taken against its citizens and the citizens of other countries, like Tibet and Taiwan, but the world remains silent most likely due to how dependent they are of China economically.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2006/tc20060112_434051.htm
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