China Beat has helpfully compiled several of the more thoughtful recent analyses to come out of the Google vs. China debate. For example:
NPR’s Fresh Air program, “Fighting Cybercrime, One Digital Thug at a Time.” Fresh Air contributor Dave Davies interviews Joseph Menn, a journalist who has been investigating hacker collectives and daily lives of hackers (chronicled in his new book, Fatal System Error), and Barrett Lyon of 3Crowd Technologies.
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YaleGlobal Online features a two-part story, “China and Google: Searching For Trouble.” Part One, by Jonathan Fenby, is here; Part Two, by Garten, can be found here.