Shvoong.com Being Targeted by Chinese Crackdown on Information Access: Get the Word Out About This Abuse of Power

I have previously written an article that guides writers and students to Shvoong.com. Shvoong is a site where you can make a little bit of spending money by writing abstracts and summaries of pretty much anything-from poems to entire web sites. It is one of the premier sites on the internet for dissemination of information. Naturally there are any number of fearful cowards in this world that are more afraid of information being shared than of planes shooting guided missiles. Shvoong has been attacked by the repressive Chinese government that has become notorious for being the leader of placing obstacles in the way of internet access.

Chinese writers are, in fact, among the top contributors to Shvoong. Living in a country that seems to exist solely for the purpose of keeping its citizens uninformed will do that, I guess. It has yet to be determined exactly why the Chinese government has moved to block user access to Shvoong. One reason may very well be that Shvoong recently signed a contract with Tsinghua University in Beijing to receive over one million academic abstracts on such topics as medicine and technology. Yes, the idea that some of its billions of citizens might gain some information about such subjects by visiting Shvoong does ring true. Except that, as Tal Perry, Shvoong's Head of Business Development told me, 90% of the Chinese content available on Shvoong is material of exceptional quality and service that has absolutely no political agenda to speak of. So basically, there seems to be little to justify the Chinese government having taken this action.