1984

" Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. "
-Potter Stewart

The blog "Project Marco Polo" has now been officialy banned in China. I can access it via proxy servers (which bypasses the Chinese firewall), but nowhere in China can users normally access the site. Not sure what I wrote here that the Chinese authority could classify as a "threat" but I feel proud and sad at the same time about it. Proud because someone in the Chinese bureaucracy found something on my blog that puts the regime at risk. I never expected my blog to achieve this "level of importance". But at the same time I am sad to see that despite all the progress made over the last 20 years, China is still spending lots of time and resources on a foolish crusade to control how people think in this coutry. The good thing is that they are failing and will continue to fail. The bad is that they will spend billions of dollars in this folly.

I will continue to write the good, the bad and the ugly about my adventures here in this blog. I saw dictatorship in Brazil for many ears, so I know that the bets way to defeat it, is to simply ignore it. Please stay tuned and check the blog often.