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Following Senator Dick Durbin's letter to Baidu last week expressing his concerns about censorship in China, the US State Department has announced plans to set aside $19 million to fight internet censorship overseas.

We recently wrote about the growing tensions between the US and China over online censorship and internet freedoms. In part to address growing concerns like censorship around the world, the US has launched its International Strategy for Cyberspace.

The Great Firewall of China keeps getting better

Bloomberg is reporting this morning that Chinese search giant Baidu is being sued by eight Chinese residents of New York. According to the report, they assert that Baidu is helping the Chinese government censor political opinion online, and that this violates the U.S. constitution.

The IT Rules 2011 issued by the Ministry of IT and Communications under Section 79 of the Indian IT Act (pdf) states that websites shall inform users not to publish any material that is "blasphemous, would incite hatred, is ethnically objectionable, would infringe on patents, or threaten India's unity or public order."