China’s censorship arms race escalates – Rebecca MacKinnon

Last week the China Digital Times reported that the photo above (click here to view full size original) has been making the rounds in Chinese blogs and chatrooms. It is an image of a “computer science float” for Thursday’s National Day parade, onto which somebody has photoshopped a screenshot of the Internet Explorer error message familiar to anybody who has ever tried to access a blocked website in China: “This page cannot be displayed.” – Read on