As we at the ONI continue to study China’s censorship and surveillance on the Net, it’s interesting to see officials in the Chinese government highlighting language hegemony as a rationale for greater content control online.  Certainly it’s true that the net is overwhelmingly — and unfortunately — predominantly in English.  But it seems odd that the proper response to such a state of affairs would be restriction by government of the medium’s use; precisely the opposite would seem more convincing.