The soup opera has ended

A few days ago I read on the newpapers that Google had ended its hostilities with China by leaving Google.cn: From now on, when a chinese citizen will look for something trough this browser, he or she will be lead to the one in Hong-Kong (chinese city that has an special autonomy and independence for having been a british colony and where thereare more liberties).

The communist regimen system that governs China had applied the censorship in order to limited the access of chinese citizens to determinated webpages such as "Tiananmen slaughter", the "religious movement of Falun Gong", the "human rights" or the Tibet .This had caused a big arguement that has lasted almost four years.

This decision aroused my surprise since Google had forgotten their economic revenues and given more importance to the freedom of speech.

However, even though this has showed an admirable action of principles taken by Google, things in China have not changed....THE CENSORSHIP IS STILL THERE!

Internet is a weapon that everybody has to fight against the violation of human rights (which includes freedom of speech).

Maybe the best solution was not leaving them where they are but continue fighting so that all that citizens, not only in China but in other countries where there is a big porcentage of people who can not have access to the internet, can get to know how to use a computer and the internet and have access to it so that the digital divide is broken and therefore the information and the claims against injustices spreaded.

Furthermore, and as Hilary Clinton expressed:

“This issue [Internet governance] isn’t just about information freedom; it is about what kind of world we want and what kind of world we will inhabit.”

(Hilary Clinton, US Secretary of State, 2010)