Notion of GFW is outdated - researcher

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via WikipediaLokman Tsui challenged at the recent China Internet Research Conference in Hong Kong the conventional (American) way of looking at the Great Fire Wall (GFW) or the internet censorship in China, here according to the Wall Street Journal weblog.
The approach of US Congress to attack China's GFW is doomed to fail, said Lokman Tsui:

... because “the [notion of the] Great Firewall is basically a continuation of the Cold War ideology that is so predominant in the U.S.” The assumption is that the firewall is kind of like an “Iron Curtain 2.0″ that’s dividing East and West. Not so, Mr. Tsui said. But you can find that mentality in the Cold-War era ways that the U.S. tries to influence China’s control over the Internet, assuming that access to political information from overseas would foster democracy and end rule by the Communist Party...
Finally, Tsui argues that the Great Firewall metaphor presumes that there is tension between the government and citizens in China over censoring the Internet, but recent research suggests the vast majority of Chinese Internet users want the government to control Internet content.