censorship - Postings on 'participatory censorship'

Both Andrea and Isaac react on an earlier pieces by Xiao Qiang of the Berkeley Journalism School on the changing direction in the internet censorship.
There is indeed a tendency to expand the self censorship and move away from direct control and repression, although the blocking technology is doing overtime in the past few week. More than in the past useful websites like wikipedia and the blogger interface have been blocked, creating at least a bit of a nuisance.