Freedom of speech, information wants to be free, social engineering, one world, bla-bla. Not in China. That doesn't stop the biggest internet-companies in the world, those with with the funny names and the happy-happy image. Yeah, keep smiling.

boingboing: China blocking Google.com; censored Google.cn to be only option?

The Nation: Yahoo's Dirty Secret: Quote: Yahoo! has a Chinese-language portal hosted inside China, with a search engine that filters out all websites and keywords deemed unacceptable by Chinese authorities," writes former CNN Beijing Bureau Chief Rebecca MacKinnon in a recent Nation online exclusive. "It does not inform users that the content is being censored in any way. Yahoo! also offers a Chinese-language e-mail service hosted on computer servers inside the People's Republic. Because the user data is under Chinese legal jurisdiction, Yahoo! is obligated to comply with Chinese police requests to hand over information. Such compliance over the past several years has led to the jailing of at least three dissidents."