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China Blocks Web Search Engines: Country Fears Doors To Commerce Also Open Weak Spots

Date: September 12, 2002

Authors: Peter S. Goodman and Mike Musgrove

QUOTE: China's broadening censorship highlights the central tension underlying its transition from a closed and centrally planned economy to one where market forces hold sway...

ABSTRACT: China’s leaders are blocking access to two popular Internet search engines, which supposedly lead users to "threatening material." The concern is that Chinese citizens will browse the web and find information that is incongruent with the communist regime, which presides in China.
--- C. Heimbuch-Skaley

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Article MetaInformation:

Key People:

• James Barnett
• Jerry Yang
• David Y. Chen
• Jiang Zemin
• Joel T. Kotkin

Key Organizations:

• Altavista Company (CMGI)
• British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
• Cisco Systems
• Google
• International Data Group (IDG)
• New York Times Company
• Washington Post Company
• Washington Post Newspaper
• Yahoo!

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Computers & Information Technology
  • Computer Network Access/Data Flows
  • Internet General (see also Fraud, Free Speech, etc.)
    • Internet: Infrastructure / Domain Names

• Media & Journalism
  • Press Freedom / Media-Government Relations

• Asia
  • East Asia
    • China (People's Republic / Mainland)
      • Tibet / China S.A.R.
    • Taiwan [ex-Formosa]

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