The Register posts a very good comment piece about the Google/China spat, making some observations – including a note about the PR of the actual ‘we’re not censoring anymore’ but the main thing that stuck out was this:

Amnesty International was among the human rights organisations scrambling to congratulate Google for threatening to pull out of China today.

Which just shows how much human rights activists know about technology. Come to think of it, if human rights campaigners did know more about technology, they might think twice about using Gmail accounts.

Which ties in with what I said here when asking why the human rights people weren’t using the likes of PGP in Google’s China PR spat.

Article is well worth a read. Well done to El Reg.