Like to surf the internet? Be glad you are not in China! Recently, Google experienced an outage, which was thought to be due to their own technical updates, but later was determined to be caused by China’s “Great Firewall”. China has many restrictions on search engines and the web, and tech companies have experienced a great deal of frustration trying to comply. The most recent event was caused by China’s internet filtering. In a country that bans Facebook, Twitter, and Google’s own YouTube, how can any information flow freely via broadband? The internet is meant to be a highway of information, a free exchange. Creating a cyber traffic jam in a nation of a billion people will only lead to less than state of the art technological development.