The Bishops' Pulpit

China fighting a "losing battle"

CNN has an article about how the Chinese government is trying to tighten regulations on what people are allowed to blog about on the Internet. It seems that the spread of blogs and other Internet information channels is making headway in information disbursement that traditional media--which is easy to control--can't do.

While the authorities are trying to restrict the posting content of individuals, according to Xiao Qiang--the director of the China Internet Project at the University of California at Berkeley--such regulations, "can intimidate and control some sites, but it's just fundamentally against the way information flows on the Internet.... In the long run, they are still fighting a losing battle."

So blogging is actually contributing to extend the spread of real news and appreciation for democratic process in Communist China; Awesome!