A great CNet article today about how a Chinese official at the UN denied the existence of internet censorship at the Internet Governance Forum in Greece:

Chinese official: How can I elaborate on it if we don’t have any restrictions?  Some people say that there are journalists in China that have been arrested. We have hundreds of journalists in China, and some of them have legal problems. It has nothing to do with freedom of expression.

Well, the Chinese government may have a different name or understanding of it, but deny the existence of a control mechanism that alters what its citizens can or can’t read is not just comical — its laughable.

Besides, if they’re not controlling what people read, then  they’re certainly looking at figuring exactly who’s behind the (potentially) dissenting voices – a few weeks ago, there was a meme going around that they would be asking bloggers to register their real names.

Amazing.