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New at Reason: David Harsanyi on Technology, Censorship, and Chinese Democracy

The Chinese government recently demanded that all personal computers sold in that country be equipped with software that allows government officials to block access to Web sites that disseminate "unhealthy information." But as David Harsanyi writes, the trouble for the Communist nation is that Internet users have rather effortlessly gotten around the "Great Firewall of China." And if history is any indication, ingenuity will prevail once more. If we've learned anything as a free people, Harsanyi argues, it's that you can't keep the masses from their pornography—or, on occasion, even the truth.

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