I read Elisavet's post on censorship of China. The article said how censorship originally started out with the intention to block pornography and other "harmful" sites. However, many critics claim that this was just an excuse and that the real reason for censorship was because the ruling political party wanted to maintain its authority over society. Liu, the person that was interviewed and is in charge of internet affairs, claims that the U.S does something similar with the NY Times. Like Noreen stated "information has always been on our finger tips", and we haven't faced serious censorship problems like other countries have. For the most part we are able to obtain information about anything.