rohit khare kharealumnicaltechedu cheeky letter editors economist follows along article commenting rohit article chinese attempts censor google last week search goes sept 19th followup correctly noted subversive aspect googles service card catalog merely points surfers right direction entire library maintaining amounts live backup entire world wide web get googles cache read anything youd like techniques chinese internet service providers using enforce rules however depend fact traffic google indeed almost public websites unencrypted almost web browsers however include support secure sockets layer ssl encryption securing credit card numbers like upgrading ssl makes effectively impossible maninthemiddle meddle censorship would imposed individual computer china choice left either ban entire site range ip addresses kind selective filtering reported article course additional computing power encrypt traffic costs real money united states concerned free flow information shouldnt broadcasting board governors sponsor encrypted interface google matter rest web date public diplomacy efforts focused publicsector programming voice america radio sawa like imagine us government got business subsidizing secure access privatesector media instead nothing illustrates freedom press much wacky excess press already salted away google internet archive project second thought hardly imagine administration promoting use encryption uphold privacy rights never mind best rohit khare search goes china backtracks banning googleup point sep 19th 2002 beijing economist print edition chinese nickname google american internet search engine gougou meaning doggy countrys fastgrowing population internet users 46m according official estimate proving elusive creature earlier month chinese authorities blocked access google internet service providers chinaapparently search engine helped chinese users get access forbidden sites outcry users access restored unusual climbdown chinas zealous internet censors hardly sophisticated controls imposed make difficult use google search material deemed offensive government access still blocked cached versions web pages taken google trawls internet provided handy way chinese users see material stored blocked websites blocking google august 31st many chinese internet users posted messages bulletin boards china protesting move anger aroused last week chinese internet providers began rerouting users trying reach blocked google site far less powerful search engines china duncan clark head beijingbased technology consultancy firm bda china ltd says china trying new tactic efforts censor internet recently focused blocking individual sites including pages stored seems filtering data transmitted foreign websites search key words might indicate undesirable content example earlier week using eastnet beijingbased internet provider search google falun gonga quasibuddhist exercise sect outlawed china usually aborted results time appear search also rendered google impossible use several minutes mon 23 sep 2002 144441 0700 subsidizing ssl access google