Google May Have Ended Censorship In China

According to news reports Google may have removed filters from its internet search engine in China. If true, with Google's high profile it could increase pressure on the Chinese government to remove what is known as the Great Fire Wall. However, given the governments desire to keep its citizens ignorant of the outside world a further crackdown on internet use could be forthcoming.
I say may have because its impossible to know from here in Japan as internet access is not restricted

BEIJING - Web sites dealing with subjects such as the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, Tibet and regional independence movements could all be accessed through Google's Chinese search engine Tuesday, after the company said it would no longer abide by Beijing's censorship rules.

Despite a report in the China Daily that Google China was still filtering content on its search engine and the firm's own insistence that its policies had not changed, people in Beijing found that it wasn't necessarily the case.

NBC News, using the publicly accessible Internet, tried searching for three sensitive topics normally blocked in China.