Proof that China censors online content?

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China’s one, young netizen

In mid-November, Financial Times

ran an excellent piece by Mure Dickie about China’s censorship of online content. In it, Wang Guoqing, the vice-minister of the State Council Information Office, was quoted saying: “As I understand it, the censorship of websites or online content is completely impossible.”

Your correspondent had occasion to remember this quote when using Baidu to search for pictures using the following search terms “中国年轻网民” (China’s young netizens). Baidu produced a single result: the picture of premier Wen Jiabao shown here.

This picture is not the only image on the Internet that meets the search criteria. An identical search on Google Images found 228 results.

Is this difference in search results the consequence of China’s censorship of the Internet? Or is it just evidence of Google’s superiority to Baidu?

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