China blocks Wikipedia?

It hasn’t been confirmed that the Chinese government’s pogrom against free speech on the Internet has now extended to Wikipedia. But, according to the report at AsiaPundit, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia is now blocked on Chinese computers. The assistance of Cisco, Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! to Chinese repression of freedom within China is reciprocated by billions of dollars of potential business.

As the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s Reichskristallnacht approaches on November 9-10, I turn to Wikipedia for a quote from Hermann Goring on November 12, 1938, in which I will substitute the words “Peking regime” for “Fuhrer”, “freedom” for “Jew”, and the word “China” for “Germany”: "I have received a letter written on the Peking regime’s orders requesting that the freedom question be now, once and for all, coordinated and solved one way or another... I should not want to leave any doubt, gentlemen, as to the aim of today's meeting. We have not come together merely to talk again, but to make decisions, and I implore competent agencies to take all measures for the elimination of the freedom from the Chinese economy, and to submit them to me."

How far we’ve traveled thanks to technology when by the flick of a switch in Peking all of the books and thoughts referenced in Wikipedia can be burned. Goring would be quite jealous.