At 10:30am on May 17, leading Chinese intellectual Wang Lixiong opened a Google Moderator page to accept and sort questions for the Dalai Lama from Chinese citizens inside China.
Moderator was used to rank the questions in order of popularity – resulting in a set of queries that represented the real concerns of the Chinese people.
“By 10 p.m. on May 20 (EST), 282 questions had been submitted and 12,045 votes for questions had been cast.”
