Google VS China

[Tuxx]

Recently, in case you may or may not heard of, Google basically bitch-slapped China in the face for being an ass

China has strict blocks on most search terms at Google.cn (i.e. Democracy, Human Rights. Before, Google had complied to these rules & regulations). Google had apparently got fed up with this idea recently and removed those search restrictions to mainland Chinese users, by redirecting it to Google.com.hk from Google.cn

What are your views on this? Should Google play nice and stay with a countries policies on censorship? Is China right for censoring the hell out of things? Imagine logging onto your computer, in your country (lets say USA), and you can't go to places like Facebook or Youtube, even Blogger ANYWHERE, because the top 1% of your government doesn't want 99% of the population to for whatever reason.

I find it hysterical. Google did a bold move there. If Google was a person, China would be Google's prime bitch right now, and there's no offtime. Sure, google knows it might be removed from China all together, but it's showing some backbone to cyberoppression

 

[ClicheGuevara]

Yes it's wrong for china to censor, but it's also googles obligation to follow the laws of the land...I guess. .lol

 

[Burntblood]

That's what I hate about Chinese porn, all the blurry vaginas.

 

[Minor Axis]

The flow of information is the enemy of any oppressive state who wants to maintain a lid on individual freedoms and civil liberties.Google will have to decide if they want to try to operate in that country and deal with Chinese censorship or kiss that huge market good bye. I'm impressed they chose the way they did.

 

[Azazel]

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[porterjack]

That's what I hate about Chinese porn, all the blurry vaginas.

i think that is Japanese

 

[Minor Axis]

i think that is Japanese

I think you're right and it is a strange teasing form of censorship.

 

[porterjack]

I think you're right and it is a strange teasing form of censorship.

i know what you mean

 

[Tuxx]

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i lol'd XD
what if i said i was

 

[KpAtch3s]

The actual cause that lead Google to take this course of action was a cyber attack on many large US corporations. China attempted to gain access to several gmail accounts of human rights activists that reside within their borders.

GoDaddy seems to be following Google's lead as well, as they've recently announced they'll no longer register new domain names in China.

 

[Minor Axis]

The actual cause that lead Google to take this course of action was a cyber attack on many large US corporations. China attempted to gain access to several gmail accounts of human rights activists that reside within their borders.

GoDaddy seems to be following Google's lead as well, as they've recently announced they'll no longer register new domain names in China.

China, N.Korea, Russia, Singapore, they are all alike, the free flow of info is poison to those in power.

 

[Accountable]

Maybe Google thought they could become popular enough with the people to make the Chinese gov't loosen up their censorship.

By refusing to do any business at all with China, doesn't that give China exactly the control over information that it wants? But then again, what other real choice is there?

I spose the only option freedom-loving people have is to hack through China's firewalls to allow for the free flow of information. That's in clear violation of China's laws but fully supported by our stance of freedom of speech and equality for all.

 

[kelvin070]

The flow of information is the enemy of any oppressive state who wants to maintain a lid on individual freedoms and civil liberties.Google will have to decide if they want to try to operate in that country and deal with Chinese censorship or kiss that huge market good bye. I'm impressed they chose the way they did.

Google's co-founder made the decision based on his influence in the Soviet Union where he grew up. Perhaps Minor Axis you can suggest to Google to abandon Sinagpore as well.

 

[Hans]

I think its a pretty bold move on googles part. I think you really have to abandon "right and wrong" with business, and look where it really matters - the profit. Google obviously is a superpower in regards to both advertising and the Internet, and they are constantly expanding.

However, to me this seems like a pretty impressive move on their part. They will no doubt gain a lot of hits from the Chinese, but even if the government puts new restrictions onto Google, they will still gain a surge of publicity and popularity. Hats off to them.

 

[kelvin070]

To put it in a nutshell Google's loss is Microsoft's gain.

 

[Nguyen]

I think China might have coherent reasons for wanting to filter out 'public opinion' (read: Progressive democratic propaganda). I don't like censorship, but I don't really like 'public opinion' any more. China has its problems, many of them serious, but I don't think a massive influx of nonsense is necessarily going to improve their situation.
It would be different if the media was not owned (or more precisely, owns) the American Government, but as it is it's one government's bullshit versus another, and I think the Chinese government is marginally saner if anything.