20 May 2005 - The Great Firewall of China. In this article published on OpenDemocracy.net, Becky Hogge (OpenDemocracy Managing Editor) reports on the increasing talks and worries regarding the thickening bond between China and Internet Giants such as Google and other search engines. Drawing on the ONI's recent report - the Internet Filtering in China in 2004-2005: A Country Study - on China's new techniques for censorship, largely based on new media such as internet and mobile phones, Becky Hogge remarks that ‘it is not only repressive regimes that have an interest in the censorship of the internet. Technologies now used by the Chinese, like choke points for packet filtering, were advocated in the 1990s by rightsholder lobbies in the National Information Infrastructure talks in the United States '. Read more.