Google vs China
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I don't think google have been trying to get involved in the politics of it all, but it's a little bit tricky when a country bans part of your business to further grow it's home grown companies..(google apps seems to have been blocked for about a month now). In saying that, this probably happens with agriculture in the states?
I also don't think google were actively taking part in the censorship, merely adhering to the laws of the country in which they operate. You would expect the same if the world had varied laws on child porn.
The strangest thing is that the Chinese public know they're being censored, they gossip about the latest riots and they all have access to proxy servers. They know about the human rights issues the government are covering up - in effect, the censorship is just an admission of guilt.
With this is mind, i don't see how censorship can continue indefinitely. The west has pretty much given up trying to censor films because it didn’t make any difference.
It will be a great shame if google close here, because they do a good job, and the local search engines list by who’s bribing them the most. The Chinese people deserve an honest search engine so they can look at porn in peace.
Join me next week, reporting from prison.
- sorry, i am a chinese, i have to report you to the china gov, see you in ching tao prisontypist
- As more of our lives becomes digital - censorship in all areas of our lives becomes far more likely.********
- China are maybe an extreme example, but any privately run site can (and sometimes does) censor.********
- (*sometimes do)********
- are you censoring yourself now?janne76
- haha! The Chinese people deserve an honest search engine that'll serve them honest porn....********