What I find most frightening appears in the top left-hand corner on the Chinese site (primitively translated with Babelfish as always):
Possibly the most frightening thing I have ever seen on this web of ours:
Search Tiananmen from Google Images:
http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen
Search Tiananmen from Google China:
http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen
Colin Jackson
您是不是要找: 天安门
You are not must look: Tiananmen
Be careful what you look at. Be careful what you write.
Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference. Whether he went on with the diary, or whether he did not go on with it, made no difference. The Thought Police would get him just the same. He had committed — would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper — the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed for ever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.
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