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What we are witnessing these days seem to recall the chill of the Cold War period. The terrain of the battle today is the Web , on the one hand and the other censored enshrined as a fundamental right. How will it end?

Since Google has decided to fight and not to succumb to more censorship and restrictive policy practiced by the Chinese authorities on the web , and I would say that was right, it was an inevitable clash sparked an international level, involving the highest levels of government Chinese on one side and the other Americans. A clash in real style "Cold War", fought on new ground, the web that threatens to blow up to date balances built with detail and patience. Just with China Obama beginning of his presidential term had promised to build new relationships. Well after one year this is already strained.

Hillary Clinton

Basically, in China the Web is not free, is still controlled and censored by the authorities that repress freedom on the Web with clear spirit censor laws, eliminating what is the spirit of the Web , that is democratic and free, open to all without distinction and restriction of any kind. After the move by Google and after that China has reacted by saying that Google would continue to live in China as long as the rules, ie rules of censorship, politics took to the field. Hillary Clinto fact yesterday, Secretary of State of the Obama presidency, has intervened in a clear and decisive on the issue with a speech at the Newseum, the journalism museum in Washington, which I found very interesting and I share a lot. Clinton urged all governments to avoid any form of restriction of freedom of expression.

A new curtain is descending information on most of the world

A sentence to this effect that treats the era of the web that we live today than in 1946 when Churchill expressed those words to denounce the "iron curtain that is discendeno Europe. The comparison is strong, in practice the Clinton equates the China of today, which prevents the free flow of ideas, with the Soviets at that time that prevented the free movement of persons actually initiating the Cold War.

The countries that restrict free access to information or that violate fundamental rights of Internet users are likely to close behind a wall that separates them from the progress of the next century.

He also mentioned the samizdat , the underground publications that were against the regime, to emphasize that the U.S. will always be free flow of ideas for overcoming any type of wall.

Words that have now provoked a harsh reaction by the Chinese government, which has lquidato Clinton's speech as harmful to relations between the two countries, calling the U.S. to complying with the Chinese.

The China has its own national situation and its cultural traditions and manage the Internet in accordance with its laws and with international practices.

For heaven's sake nobody would dream of violating the autonomy of the Chinese government is at stake the freedom of expression and freedom of individuals, recognized universally. Recognizing the Internet as a right of all free and democratic, that's the issue touches everyone qualsiai level. And talk about a country that is not new to restrictions of freedom of dangerous people. And I think that in this case will be tough. If China continues to see the web as a threat, and are automatically a threat who also supports the free network for all, then the question will be difficult to handle, precluding even those that outreach efforts in recent times China has undertaken. It 's a very delicate case that this will require more time.