China - hauling in the Net

It's claimed China has more journalists in jail than any other country and it certainly has a long history of state control of the press. So who would be a 'public intellectual' in China ? Plenty of people it seems more from the Asia Times ... This long article makes an interesting point, that the government is struggling to impose traditional censorship on a very non-traditional medium - the internet. If it can't, China will be a very different place, and maybe is already.