Well that's a bold move Google.

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Well, long story short, Google is going to be shutting down in China...

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...These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered--combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web--have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China.

We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China...

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html

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Good.
 
Good. A) Fuck China's oppressive regime and B) My family owns a bunch of stock in a Chinese search engine.

Win-Win.
 
It's so ridiculous that they cna do that or that they even feel the need to still do stuff like this. It's not fair to their people to keep them so sheletered from everything. It's just a waste of life.
 
first half of the statement, I agree with.Second half, I'd venture to say real communism was never (and can't feasibly ever be) born. So clearly, something unborn can't die.
I hope they dont shut down google in north korea as well?
 
tiananmen_tank_man_google_china.gif
 
what does the sentance you uttered even mean?
their government is so fucked right now, that was amazing, google is doing the right thing here
 
well that's a bad example because if some kid for a school report was doing tianamen square and searched images and the first thing to come up was shot up bodies and tanks... may not be the best for a child to see.

but i get what you're saying.
 
I doubt the chinese gov't would allow reports on the killings at the square. I'd imagine they tell school kids that it "never happened"
 
it's a perfect example. i'm glad my google search isn't censored like that. Search " Kent State " and look at the first bunch of images that shows ups. Yeah it was a shitty time in history but it happened. Pretending it didn't is just rediculous. I see what you are saying in trying to protect the mind of a child. But that's what search filters should be for. Not censorship.
 
Wow. Its for things like that in which a child-lock could be put on a computer, but for an entire country? No. With information as accessibile as it is, if you are curious, you should be just as capable of finding out what's real.
 
Now that's censorship. I searched communism in google.cn and found some negative content, but is that technically what the government is?

I also searched Mao Zedong, overpopulation of china and made in china just for kicks.
 
That's exactly what happens, they want the chinese to be ignorant to the world around them. THe less they know, the easier it is to keep paying them ridiculously small amounts.
 
i think that it'd be common sense that if a young child was doing a report on tiananmen square, it'd be on the square itself and not the massacre... that teacher would probably be fired.
 
that's pretty interesting to me. I think Google is doing the right thing here, but I wonder if spelling would affect all searches on controversial issues or if that search was a glitch.
 
not at all! I'm just making sure he's honest on his side of the argument.

Yes China is censoring the internet; but to make people think that you cannot find any pictures of the protest from google.cn is just as dishonest as the censorship you're attempting to bring light to.

if you want honesty, you've got to bring honesty.
 
yeah that works with a lot of things, just put in something unfinished and the autofill recommendations are hilarious
 
just seems like the "islam is" thing is the most popular one... i dont know... all im saying is that i wouldnt be surprised if they were censoring it.
 
Put in tiananmen square and you get dead bodies

Put in tiananmen square massacre and you get dead bodies and tanks

The censorship doesn't seem to be that bad in this respect (I'm sure in other areas it's significantly worse). It probably seems bad to us because the only thing we generally know about the square is that protesters were killed there. So when westerners (and probably to some greater degree, US citizens - since the US Govt is anti communist) think 'tiananmen' they think tanks and dead people.

To the Chinese people tiananmen square is a culturally significant site as well the site of the protests. Therefore it would make sense that other images are displayed aside from the massacre pictures. If you are more specific in your search terms the images are there. I think the apparent censorship in this case is more a case of cultural differences.
 
well google did say in their post that they are no longer willing to censor in china. so they could have stopped as of yesterday
 
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