Asian journalists decry business bias of Net companies

05.06.2006

Great firewall

Isaac Mao, one of the early bloggers in China, revealed that the 'Great Firewall of China' is an Internet backbone that aims to control and filter people's access to the Internet. It also blocks thousands of overseas Web sites to prevent people from accessing them. One of the banned Web sites is Wikipedia, said to be the biggest encyclopedia in human history.

'I think the system is very effective but very bad to knowledge sharing and to the civilization of people,' Mao said.