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Evil Google in China Self Censorship

boycott google | 26.01.2006 00:54 | World

Yes, google is evil. Boycott google and let them know you are doing it.
Write to google ad companys and let them know too.
Got a gmail account? dump it and let google know why?

Go here for a quick way to leave a message for google...
 http://www.google.com/quality_form?q=boycotting+google+self+censorship&hl=en&lr=

Then copy and paste it into an email to google as well.

Google has agreed to censor its results in China, adhering to the country's free-speech restrictions in return for better access in the Internet's fastest growing market. China already has more than 100 million Web surfers and the audience is expected to swell substantially -- an alluring prospect for Google as it tries to boost its already rapidly rising profits. To obtain the Chinese license, Google agreed to omit Web content that the country's government finds objectionable. Google will base its censorship decisons on guidance provided by Chinese government officials. Although China has loosened some of its controls in recent years, some topics, such as Taiwan's independence and 1989's Tiananmen Square massacre, remain forbidden subjects. Google shirked it's "don't be evil" motto and join other scum including Yahoo and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN.com in submitting to China's censorship regime.

"This is a real shame," said Julien Pain, head of Reporters Without Borders' Internet desk. "When a search engine collaborates with the government like this, it makes it much easier for the Chinese government to control what is being said on the Internet."

Neither Google's e-mail nor blogging services will be offered in China because the company doesn't want to risk being ordered by the government to turn over anyone's personal information. The e-mail service, called Gmail, creates a huge database of users' messages and makes them instantly searchable. The blogging services contain a wide range of personal background.

Yahoo came under fire last year after it provided the government with the e-mail account information of a Chinese journalist who was later convicted for violating state secrecy laws.

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evil or not poll

26.01.2006 10:10

click on the link-
 http://www.evilornot.info/

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double standards

26.01.2006 18:51

how many of you have complained to google about linking news from the BNP, yet you dont want the chinese to censor its people but you think you have the right to censorship here, hypocrites

uncle


VIVA INDYMEDIA!

27.01.2006 12:58

Neither google.cn or the chinese firewall are blocking indymedia so dissident stuff can be posted on global indymedia.
 http://www.indymedia.org/en/index_open.shtml#openwire

Whether they'd tollerate any China indymedia or Tibet indymedia is another matter

for more inforation on what is blocked see this report-
 http://www.opennetinitiative.net/studies/china/ONI_China_Country_Study.pdf

comparing google.cn to google.com
 http://blog.outer-court.com/censored/

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- Homepage: http://www.google.cn/search?hl=zh-CN&q=indymedia+tibet&btnG=%E6%90%9C%E7%B4%A2&meta=


uncle you dick

27.01.2006 22:47

Uncle seems to have a strange idea that the original poster somehow represents all indymedia posters (apart from uncle himself) and at the same time, he suggests that those people who have complained about google listing BNP material are somehow the very same people. crazy !

As for indymedia, hey, notice that this site is using the google search engine?

that sucks

the google decision is really bad news for the internet

we should fight it

an individual


Need our own search engines now

27.01.2006 22:53

Updated Google's support centre has pulled an answer to the topical question "Does Google censor search results?" Since the answer clearly stated the company "does not censor results for any search term", and given the company's recent foray into the lucrative Chinese search engine market, it seems fair that the internet monolith would probably want to review that particular stance and relegate the offending item to cache.

Yup, democracy is not a word you want to be flashing about when you've just opened a big fat Yuan bank account.

For the record, Google's justification for agreeing to censorship of search results on Google China is, as Sergey Brin put it: "We ultimately made a difficult decision, but we felt that by participating there, and making our services more available, even if not to the 100 percent that we ideally would like, it will be better

for Chinese Web users, because ultimately they would get more information, though not quite all of it."
Chinese news website Xinhua kicks off its "China welcomes running dog lackey imperialist search engine" piece with: "By creating a unique address for China, Google hopes to make its search engine more widely available and easier to use in the world's most populous country."

It does, however, quickly move on to a refreshingly frank analysis of Google's real motivation: "China already has more than 100 million web surfers and the audience is expected to swell substantially — an alluring prospect for Google as it tries to boost its already rapidly rising profits."
Don't be evil? Don't make us laugh.

Reuters reports that Google and other internet companies have been "called" to attend a "Congressional Human Rights Caucus hearing on Wednesday and a February 16 session of the House of Representatives subcommittee on Global Human Rights".
The latter invitation is at the behest of New Jersey Republican and subcommittee chairman Chris Smith, who said in a statement that Google "would enable evil by cooperating with China's censorship policies just to make a buck."

Cisco, Microsoft and Yahoo! will also join "State Department officials and press freedom watchdog groups" at the 16 February shindig. Whether Bill Gates will attend is unkown, but he today weighed into the debate by declaring: "I think [the internet] is contributing to Chinese political engagement. Access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

Speaking In Davos, Switzerland, Gates added that concerns about censorship or widespread piracy in China should not deter firms from doing business there.

thin end of the wedge


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28.01.2006 10:16

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28.01.2006 17:27


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Thin end of the wedgie

31.01.2006 14:21

If you are going to steal someone elses article, then a brief summary followed by a link would be better. At the very least put, if you are just cutting and pasting then cut and paste into comments. Otherwise some of us may think you are smarter than you really are.

 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/27/google_doesnt_censor/

Danny


Better Than Google

09.02.2006 08:41


Clusty is better than google!

 http://clusty.com/

Clusty


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