These guys have the right idea.

In a rare protest against an official media crackdown, about 100 journalists from one of China’s most aggressive daily newspapers have gone on strike after the paper’s editor and two of his deputies were fired, local journalists said Friday.

The editor of The Beijing News, Yang Bin, and deputy editors, Sun Xuedong and Li Duoyu, were dismissed Wednesday as part of what media watchdog groups describe as a sweeping government campaign to tighten control over the media and the Internet.

The striking journalists, about a third of the staff, stopped work on Thursday after editors from The Beijing News’s conservative parent paper, the Guangming Daily, were appointed to replace Yang and his deputies.

The Beijing News was published on Friday but the names of its editors, normally printed on the tabloid’s masthead, had been omitted.

Senior editors from the paper were unavailable for comment.

It is unlikely that the Chinese government will slowly give up its restrictions on the media out of the goodness of its little communist heart. What will happen as time goes on is that the government will try to further restrict media; however, as Chinese journalists become more experienced, together with the ongoing development of new technologies, they will be able to slip past the clutches of the authorities more and more often. That’s why it’s much easier for the government to censor stories printed on paper rather than online, where it is constantly falling behind on its ability to block the connection of people and information.