Google announces it is no longer willing to self-censor its Chinese search engine and threatens to end its operations in China, after accusing the Chinese government of launching a cyber-attack and hacking into the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. Has anybody else been following the drama?

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Political Economy tutorial, October 2007. We had just handed in our DCCSs (developing country case studies), and one by one, my classmates took turns to tell the group one interesting thing they learned in the course of researching and writing the report, if only to confirm to ourselves that, Yes, maybe we did stay up till 4am this morning to ( Read more... )