Ending Web Censorship in China

Actually, as the article at the link below notes : "We are gambling that Google is big enough and important enough that the Chinese authorities would not dare block it completely." Really? That's a bit naive -- Google is a big company and important, but I doubt it would take on the government of China on its own. However if all major IT companies banded together? . . .

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