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I remember something I heard a few years back, where China banned a website from being view. They blocked it from the entire country. Amazing that it can be done, but isn't that like cutting an article out of the paper you don't want read. People will still know it's not there they just can't read it.

The fact is each country does have their rights to censor the internet. Hell the United Stated is probably the most censored country without realizing it. But it doesn't make it right and it doesn't stop the flow of information. Just like with children if you take away a right that they know was their people will find a way to get it anyway. So even the censored web sites will be heard of and their information spread by mouth whether or not it is all true.

If anyone can change the world's countries in their view of freedom of speech it would be an internet company. Defiantly I would say they are international barriers. Countries are refusing information in for their own benefit and their people's ignorance. I'm all for Google and their fight against internet censorship; for freedom of speech and of the press.

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