Z:gnu-www-ja-digital-inclusion-in-freedom--83dea3-Censorship is nothing new. Wh/en

Censorship is nothing new. What is new is the ease and effectiveness of censorship on electronic communication and publication (even where a few wizards have ways to bypass it). China in 1960 achieved effective censorship by cutting its population off from the world, but that held back the country's development, which was painful for the regime as well as for the population. Today China uses digital technology to achieve effective political censorship without cutting itself off in other ways.15