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| Google Agrees to Censor Results in China |
| 2006-01-24 |
| Online search engine leader Google Inc. 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. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company planned to roll out a new version of its search engine bearing China's Web suffix ".cn," on Wednesday. A Chinese-language version of Google's search engine has previously been available through the company's dot-com address in the United States. Free speech? I guess it only applies if you're fighting against capitalism. |
| Posted by:whitecollar redneck |
| #6 I am calling bull shit on the "won't help governmet in child porn investigation." The facts. Google will not give the government any unindentifiable global info on searches performed by it's search engine just because the DOJ asked. They don't have to. They don't have to give trade secrets and neither do you or your employer until a court of law asks. Then that info will be submitted under seal. Got it? Thats has nothing to do with a "child porn" investigation. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2006-01-24 21:52 |
| #5 But they won't help out the US gov't in a child porn investigation. I'm really starting to dislike them. |
| Posted by: Damn_Proud_American 2006-01-24 21:33 |
| #4 China's country and root server, China's rules. You want to play in someone's backyard you gotta play by their rules. I would expect no less from other countries doing buisness here (free speech!) However, let this be a BIG lesson to what would happen if the UN and their cronies ever got a hold of the Global root servers. China can do what they want with their country root server, but they can never have the global ones. Free Speech lives baby! |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2006-01-24 21:24 |
| #3 Perhaps Google should change their motto from "Don't Be Evil" to "Be Evil for a Few Yuan". http://investor.google.com/conduct.html |
| Posted by: Darrell 2006-01-24 21:10 |
| #2 They must have forgot about that "do no evil" bit. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2006-01-24 20:45 |
| #1 Sorry to say that a lot of the mutual funds in my 401K have Google stock because I do believe that it is going to tank with management decisions like this. |
| Posted by: RWV 2006-01-24 20:39 |