Freedom in China

Normally I didn't really care much about the human rights or freedom of speech etc pressured on China by western countries.

But just a few days in China, I was surprised to learn that many popular websites are currently banned in China by GFW (so called Great FireWall of China) for the reasons I am yet to find out. Those websites like Blogger, Wikipedia, Flickr etc cannot be accessed or photos cannot be viewed, some even claimed that Google and Gmail had similar fate some times ago.

I always think that a ban in the freedom of expression is an indication of failure in education, a lack of confidence in one's righteousness but still wants to exert controls.

Normally when something is banned, it will not just stop that way, it is a human nature to find ways to go through, around, underneath, over it, for example, will a country which bans prostitution have no prostitutes? It will just go underground, and problems will be difficult to be assessed and rectified when neccessary.

The more something is supressed, the more it shows the suppressor's inability to handle different voices from an equal stance.