"China’s muzzled press and burgeoning Internet have given citizen reporters an audience and an opportunity — however fleeting — to spread news quicker than government censors can control it."

Describing it as "censorship" is possibly not the best way to explain your new "civility required" comment moderation policy…

Becky Hogge: The real threat to internet users is censorship, not social networking

"A report released today provides a highly detailed account of how the government there keeps a tight lid on online information, including quoting from orders officials sent to various Chinese Web sites to remove objectionable news stories."

"The internet in China is not as restricted as sometimes believed in the West, with most controls actually coming from sites practicing self-censorship, an academic who studies the Chinese web has said."

Despite the innocence of the photographers, the ‘Diana effect’ which dampens criticism, scrutiny and a free exchange of ideas in the name of protecting privacy and sensibilities was starting to dominate our culture back then and continues to haunt it

Richard Norton Taylor: "The Guardian, Time, BBC, and Index on Censorship, will appeal against these orders next week."

"One worrying aspect of this case is that the jury convicted. There has been a historic reluctance of juries to convict in OSA cases, because they tend to sympathise with the defendants and not with the draconian legislation."

New York City’s powerful pension funds own 486,617 shares of Google stock, and will use their position to get Google shareholders “to consider the company’s ongoing role in countries that routinely censor the Internet.”