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This chart shows recent changes in the Chinese Internet Censorship Index (CICI) value. Values less than 100% shows that sites are being blocked in China (but not outside of China). Lower values indicate more censorship — we're aiming to get China 100% censorship-free!

Thirteen years ago in Beijing, you spoke eloquently about the duty of all governments to respect the fundamental human rights of women and men. Respect for human rights, you said, means “not taking citizens away from their loved ones and jailing them, mistreating them, or denying them their freedom or dignity because of the peaceful expression of their ideas and opinions.” In recent years, however, human rights concerns have been pushed progressively further to the margins of the U.S.-China relationship. The Chinese government’s growing financial, diplomatic, and military strength, coupled with its hostility to reforms that challenge the Chinese Communist Party’s grip on power, make China a difficult country in which to effect change. But the advancement of human rights in, and with, China is arguably more central to U.S. interests than ever before. Press censorship in China makes it possible for toxic food and public health crises to spread globally. Suppression of dissent removes internal checks against environmental damage that has global impact. Abuses of low-wage labor implicate international firms operating inside China and compromise goods that come into the United States. The government’s control of mass media and the internet allow it to stoke nationalist anger against the United States in moments of crisis. The export from China of internet-censoring technologies and its provision of unconditional aid to repressive regimes increases the United States' burdens in fighting censorship and human rights crises worldwide. As much as the Chinese government appears to resist outside pressure to improve its record, experience suggests that it does respond to such pressure.

Malone称负责网络过滤计划的Stephen Conroy是“互联网存在15年来我们遇到的最差的通信部长”。尽管这初听起来iiNet像是成为政府助纣为虐的帮凶，但Malone先生表示参加过滤试验的理由是去展示它是多么的不切实际和愚蠢。他说，“每当有孩子绕过防火长城，我们将会对此进行宣传；每次长城屏蔽了合法内容，我们也会宣传。”希望澳大利亚政府尽快认识到网络过滤是无效率，无用和无结果的，只会浪费纳税人的钱。

Kai-Fu Lee, co-president for Google Greater China told us there will be no GMail in the foreseeable future, because Google would be unable to protect user data from the government.

　　当我发现我的文章《我抵制蒙牛、伊利的产品》在百度搜索“蒙牛”的时候排在首页第五的时候，我就知道蒙牛会下手来处理我这篇文章，先开始派出大量枪手在文章后排发布评论混淆视听，今天，不知道蒙牛集团通过什么手段买通了网监部门，直接通知机房要求删除我这篇文章。

The Internet is not the same for everybody. Despite it's reputation as a borderless, global, connected, democratic network, access and content filtering based on national boarders has become the norm. The BBC, for example, filters content for copyright reasons to visitors accessing their website from outside of Great Britain. Much more serious, however, is the heavy political censorship happening in countries like China, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. China, being the most extreme example, strictly censors political content on the web through the blocking of IP addresses and dynamic content filtering. With the support of western technology companies such as Cisco, Yahoo, and Google, The Golden Shield Project (sometimes referred to as the the Great Fire Wall of China) censors the web for China's 1.3 billion inhabitants. The Internet police in China is estimated to contain over 30,000 workers, and is responsible for blocking content such as Tibetan independence, Taiwan independence, police brutality, the Tienanmen Square protests of 1989, freedom of speech, democracy, religion, and some international news.

A：这鸡蛋真难吃。B：紧急通报：昨日某某都市报刊发社论《鸡蛋真难吃，民主未解决》，违背本部三令五申的纪律，特此通报批评，主管领导要对此作出检讨。A：这鸡蛋真难吃。B：某中院对于鸡蛋真难吃受害者的立案回复：因诉讼标的额不符合中院立案标准，正在请示上级法院。A：这鸡蛋真难吃。B：中院终于答复：接上级部门指示，关于鸡蛋真难吃的诉讼请求一律不予立案。A：这鸡蛋真难吃。B：某鸡蛋大亨挥泪写就万言书，《鸡蛋真难吃的罪罚治》，主题是：外国势力炮制鸡蛋真难吃舆论，虎视眈眈，包藏并购祸心。保护鸡蛋真难吃，就是保护民族品牌。嗯，鸡蛋大亨招致漫天臭鸡蛋袭击。

言论自由乃是民众把自己部分权利让渡给政府以后保留的主要权利，政府不能任意限制，或者按照人权公约的提法，政府的限制必须限制在民主社会所必须（necessary）的范围之内。所以对政府提出任何规管言论的措施，都本能地会“提高警惕”：会不会压缩言论空间？

还有人质疑互联网供应商删去或禁止用户浏览某些网页的权力，并且指出有事先审查的意味。而按照西方言论自由原则，任何对言论的事先审查（censorship）都是不允许的。

网络监管问题影响深远而且敏感，具争议性和容易极化立场，政府不应该太多管，管也帮不上忙，这才是先进自由国家的经验。期望法例适应互联网日新月异的发展速度，只会徒令法例显得过时而且扰民。

We have to be aware of the fact that the Internet has given the youth living in controlled societies infinite venues for digital entertainment - without any religious or social censorship - that may not necessarily be enhancing their digital sense of citizenship and civic engagement. Risking the comfort of their bedrooms - with their hard-drives full of digital goodies - for the gloom of a prison cell does not appeal to many of them. The governments are all too happy to promote this new cult of "cyber-hedonism." Whatever keeps these troubled youths from the streets is inherently a good thing.

The fact that existing political activists embraced the Internet as a tool of mobilization is fairly noncontroversial. What's less obvious is how many digital natives the Internet has turned into digital renegades - and how many into digital captives. It's precisely this balance that will determine what the political landscape of Russia, China or Iran will look like in 10 years.

Gosper, chairman of the IOC's press commission, had previously said that internet access for the 21,500 media accredited for the Aug. 8-24 Games would be "open". "I ... now understand that some IOC officials negotiated with the Chinese that some sensitive sites would be blocked on the basis they were not considered Games related," the Australian told Reuters on Wednesday.

Still, Belgian artist Wim Delvoye was another who attracted the attention of the cultural police. His proposal to display several pigs tattooed in Disney and Louis Vuitton logos was rejected by the cultural bureau, which said that it didn't consider live animals to be art.

The catalogues were not ready on exhibition day because offending pages had to be excised, and exhibitors had hassles obtaining visas because of the Olympic season crackdown. Some had to apply twice from different cities and provide letters of recommendation, but most squeezed in eventually

The State Administration for Radio, Film and Television has already issued five licences for mobile television services to a privileged group of state-owned broadcasters, including China Central Television (CCTV), the Shanghai Media Group and the Southern Media Group. These will sell content to the mobile operators, ensuring political censorship over the free flow of multimedia content. Whatever the format, the Communist party has given no sign it intends to relax its vigilance over what Chinese viewers can watch.

As I said, I'm all for information transparency and uncensored internet access. However a lasting progress in political reform comes from inside of a country, not from external pressure. Many Americans seem to believe in the external pressure they place on other countries; this might be a main cause of the problems with the US foreign policy. Looking at history – Americans have been in numerous countries trying to impose an order through external influence, how successful has this been?

Peter Scheer's effort to have WTO sanctions imposed based on Beijing's internet censorship, and the hearings that will be held tomorrow in Washington DC.

留言里提到：Censorship is accepted in China - 99% of internet users don't care。那这是不是真的呢？百分之九十九这么高的几率我不敢确定，大部分这个词我还是敢用的。我武断的觉得，比之Linux的用户们，更多的人似乎更不太清楚GFW的存在，所以网络审查于他们来说基本上是一种模糊甚至根本不存在的概念。推而广之，有多少人知道2006年被禁的八本书？有多少人知道曾经被走狗媒体们报道过的高耀洁老人现在正在被忠国正腐软禁？有多少人知道陈光诚也获得了时代杂志亚洲英雄的称号？有多少人知道广电总局规定2007年黄金时间只准播放主旋律的电视剧？有多少人知道现在省级电视台需要播放的电视剧都要送到广电总局层层审批？有多少人关心现在是不是讲述婚姻三角恋的电视剧为什么少了？有多少人关心现在看到的境外动画片也少了？没有多少吧？

以至于我一个刚从德国回来的同学跟我说她觉得世界上所有国家都在拼命丑化忠国，唯有CCTV的新闻才是事实的真相。回头再看这些自诩会独立思考的宣言，就有些荒诞可笑了。Lie_Ex说有些人习惯于把自己的自由换成面包，现在看来的确如此。

Under the category "Cisco Opportunities," the document provides bullet point suggestions for how it might service China's censorship system called the "Golden Shield", and better known in the West as the Great Firewall of China. China's "Golden Shield" project was one of several government-run commercial opportunities for Cisco in 2002. Credit: Cisco The document is the first evidence that the networking giant has marketed its routers to China specifically as a tool of repression.

Over the last 18 months, industry, academics and human rights groups have been working on a voluntary code of conduct for companies doing business in repressive countries. The code, when finished, would include an enforcement process and independent monitoring, an element some companies are fighting.Although a voluntary approach is a good start, Ganesan said, it likely won't go far enough. Human Rights Watch endorses a regulatory framework, including penalties to hold companies accountable.

Bloggers can be journalists (and journalists can be bloggers) - We're battling for legal and institutional recognition that if you engage in journalism, you're a journalist, with all of the attendant rights, privileges, and protections. (See Apple v. Does.)

Bloggers have the right to political speech - We're working with a number of other public-interest organizations to ensure that the Federal Election Commission (FEC) doesn't gag bloggers' election-related speech. We argue that the FEC should adopt a presumption against the regulation of election-related speech by individuals on the Internet, and interpret the existing media exemption to apply to online media outlets that provide news reporting and commentary regarding an election -- including blogs. (See our joint comments to the FEC; [PDF, 332K].)