In his amusingly titled 'Who Let the Blogs Out?' (link via Amygdala), Frank Yu argues that blogs may help to penetrate the "Great Internet Firewall of China" (another good one).
One paragraph worries me a bit:
The bureaucrats and censors in China who block and monitor websites will be hard pressed to try and control the future flow of weblogs both in and out of China due to the number and diversity of this new information platform. Having met actual Internet content censors from China, they are decent people but come from a different time and different place in terms of technology. They don’t really get it yet since weblogs remain a concept difficult for them to understand for now.
All I can say is please don't try too hard to explain it to them! We want them to stay confused as long as possible.
Posted by Dr. Weevil at March 23, 2002 10:10 PM