Hilary Rodham Clinton attacked China's Internet policies, specifically the censorship of the Internet. Her speech was the first one by a senior American official that put forward Internet freedom as a plank of American foreign policy. With its cold war undertones — likening the information curtain to the Iron Curtain — it was almost certain to ignite tinder in China and other countries she identified.

Ma Zhaoxu, a Foreign Ministry spokesman,that the criticism leveled by Mrs. Clinton was “harmful to Sino-American relations.”

And President Obama promised last year to start a more conciliatory era in relations with China, pushing human rights issues to the background, but the new criticism of China’s Internet censorship and rising tensions over currency valuation and Taiwan arms sales indicated that ill will could flare in the months ahead.

Google announced that it might shut down its chinese search enginge, Google.cn, after around 30 hacker attacks were traced back to China.

(But seriously, 20% of a given population of internet users has a pasword from a bank of around 5,000 common passwords, with one's like 123456, qwerty, and princess making the top of the list. Your fault.)

So why is Internet Freedom a good thing? Besides the fact that it has the world 'freedom' in it, which makes it American and unaduleratedly good. True, having a block in school on things like 'hate crimes' (for 'hate and discrimination') and 'games' (for 'games') and sites like YouTube and blogs are annoying, and nobody would like to have the same blocks on thier homes, but completely unadulturated Internet Freedom is probably a bad thing, seeing as how much of the internet is used for one thing, and how much of the other stuff is very distracting, I see no reason for complete internet freedom.

It should be noted that China discourages thier people from playing online games known for thier addicting quality (world of warcraft) by halfing the efficiency of characters after three consecutive hours online.

Additionally, Hillary's speech was the first one by a senior American official that put forward Internet freedom as a plank of American foreign policy. With its cold war undertones — likening the information curtain to the Iron Curtain — it was almost certain to ignite tinder in China and other countries she identified.

“The U.S. campaign for uncensored and free flow of information on an unrestricted Internet is a disguised attempt to impose its values on other cultures in the name of democracy,” the newspaper said, adding that the “U.S. government’s ideological imposition is unacceptable and, for that reason, will not be allowed to succeed.”