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Sat 01 Jan 2010Internet attacks on church belie need for open secularity online

People cluster in like-minded huddles on the web, sparking the spread of inaccurate perceptions, wrties BREDA O'BRIEN

THIS WEEK, Google threatened to pull out of China, after discovering attempts to hack into the gmail accounts of human rights activists. It’s an interesting development, given it had previously agreed supinely to censor search results that the Chinese government deemed objectionable.

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