倉促! 皮一切! 他們為我們來臨!

(translation of title, which is in traditional Chinese) "Hurry! Hide everything! They are coming for us!"

I used Google search for this assignment. The search statement was "censorship penalties" china OR united states.
From .gov website the following page was used:
www.state.gov
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Report
March 11, 2010

The report mentioned was done for the U.S. State Department and mentions censorship within the first 3 paragraphs.

For .org:
http://www.middle-east-info.org/gateway/mostrepressiveregimes.pdf
Author: Freedom House
Title: A Special Report to the 59th Session of the
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Geneva, 2003
Excerpted from
Freedom in the World 2003
The Annual Survey of Political Rights & Civil Liberties
Freedom House
Washington • New York
Belgrade • Bishkek • Bratislava • Bucharest
Budapest •

This site is credible because I have heard of Freedom House and they author many articles regarding human rights violations around the world.

For .net:
Search did not return any relevant results for my search statement. The terms were broken up and scattered.

For .com:
Returned 52 results but not with the statement intact, rather scattered throughout the web page. I was unable to find any relevant sites that would work for this statement under the .com domain.

For the next part of this assignment I used INFOMINE.
My search strategy was limited to using just "censorship" as using the entire statement produced no results (which I find frustrating to say the least).
There were 104 results listed and of these Number 1 seemed most relevant:

http://www.fepproject.org/
the site name is "The Free Expression Policy Project" and includes many articles regarding censorship in its various forms.
This is the history of this website as listed on the homepage:
The Free Expression Policy Project began in 2000 to provide empirical research and policy development on tough censorship issues and seek free speech-friendly solutions to the concerns that drive censorship campaigns. In 2004-2007, it was part of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. The FEPP website is now hosted by the National Coalition Against Censorship. Past founders have included the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Educational Foundation of America, the Open Society Institute, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Due to all of the contributors, I find this to be a very credible website and would likely use some of what is there for source material (with proper citations of course.)

One thing I have noticed recently is that sites like Yahoo and Google are limiting the use of Boolean operators, and in the case of Yahoo! the advanced search function has been eliminated completely.

The best sources for a topic such as censorship would be the .gov and .org domains because they deal with the issues more than relying on commercial ads for income. As a result of this, the information is more reliable than that of a commercial website such as Yahoo or Google.
My experience with the subject directories was a bit frustrating at first because we have been learning to refine our search statements and then I had to revert back to the general one word term to find relevant results. Once I had done this, the search was rewarding.