My students here in Beijing can find what they want on the Internet: fashion, business, travel, entertainment, romance. Anything, that is, except democracy, Tiananmen, Taiwan, human rights, Tibet, Wikipedia and hundreds of other subjects. If my students who the IB sees fit to offer its diploma programme in a fascist regime were to search the Internet for banned words they would risk being arrested, tried and imprisoned for up to 10 years on charges of subversion, …showed first 75 words of 243 total…

…showed last 75 words of 243 total…business model. This is all futile, however. China is simply going to find it harder and more difficult to police fast-changing technologies and fast-learning bloggers. All that Chinese users will no doubt remember years from now is how the biggest and most respected names in technology once helped keep them down. Along with helping create an d police a Great Chinese firewall, they may hopefully be creating insurmountable barriers between themselves and their future users.