http://fortune.com/2011/04/15/inside-googles-china-misfortun...
Maybe in ten years or more someone (Farris?) will describe the details behind the scenes about the cat-and-mouse, the unexplained outages, etc.
Kai-Fu Lee now says that if you look at China’s behavior over a long horizon—20 or 30 years—it’s clear that the trend is toward more openness. The incidents that led to Google’s retreat were “a perturbation” in this movement, mainly because Chinese leaders had reached their limits. “The next generation will come up in less than two years,” he says. “They’re younger, more progressive, many American-trained, and many have worked in businesses and run banks—they’re going to be more open.”
Was China actually more free in the 90s, or the 00s, or was it just easier to get away with it?
Could you cite any examples? I'm asking about China, not Hong Kong. Every time I ask this question, I am consistently pointed to repression in Hong Kong.