All information management professionals need to know three things about the Chinese censorship effort: 1. It is not about censorship; the techniques are much more sophisticated than that. 2. It works spectacularly well in China. 3. Those same techniques work even better in the United States. In fact, the information you are providing to your stakeholders right now is likely being used to color the truth and manipulate opinion. Are you okay with that?

Takeaways:
1. Understand the foundational strategies of Chinese government information management: Information Friction and Information Flooding.
2. Review case studies of those strategies at work in the United States.
3. Explore the ethical implications for you as an information management professional.