The future of online censorship

The World

By shutting down the Google website in mainland China, the American company has acknowledged how the political and geographical impacts that ultimate nowhere-everywhere space: the Internet. The World’s Alex Gallafent examines how the location of the internet � physical and informational � might shape the future of censorship online.

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