Currently China has about 2100 million Websurfers - and the number is climbing fast. Soon they will have overtaken the US as the #1 of Websurfers.

But too most of us Chinese Internet Users are almost invisible - and not just because of the language barrier (the same applies to many other nations that stay within their language bubble - like Japan or Arabic countries).

China’s Internet is heavily policed and censored - thanks to companies like Yahoo, Microsoft, Cisco and Google content is filtered, websites blocked (most famously Wikipedia) and users are hunted down if they dare to protest too much.

The old High-Tech-Hippie argument that the Internet can’t be tamed or regulated has been proven wrong - and not only by the Chinese Government. Places like Cuba or Iran are also black holes in the net infrastructure.

Information wants to be free - people too …

More? The Economist “Alternative Reality”