internet - An upcoming clash of cultures

Just returned on my European base after a trip that included a visit to the Search Engine conference in Nanjing. I went there on an assignment and promised not to blog on the procedings there, but fortunately there is enough to write on what has not been said.
Did you wonder about the location? Probably it could not be Hangzhou, the home-base of Alibaba.
Anyway, since the blogosphere outside China has been very busy in writing about the major search engines and the way they censor their result, you might wonder how this China-based conference dealt with it. Nada, nothing happened there. The whole thing was mentioned by nobody. That illustrates the gap in cultural perceptions inside and outside China. Censorship is not really an issue in China, since you can get anything you want to get to. I still found it weird is was not mentioned at all, but found it also not really surprising.
The outside world might explain this as selfcensorship, but I really think that most Chinese internet users just do not care about the issue.
Further, the absense of Baidu.com, the largest search engine in China in terms of users and revenue was hardly mentioned. There were some people of Baidu in the audience, but you can hardly organize such an event without them being on the stage.
Anyway: while Microsoft, Yahoo and Google were sitting together on the stage, the Chinese side was underrepresented. They did not seem so comforatable with the way all this was organized.
Anyway: there were many more signals - not so many outspoken though - that suggested an ongoing clash of cultures, between US and Chinese, although it was not always easy to say who was on what side. (That was easier for the people involved.)