Google Agrees to Censor Results in China 862
neutralino writes "The Associated Press is reporting that Google has agreed to censor results in China. According to the article, 'Google officials characterized the censorship concessions in China as an excruciating decision for a company that adopted "don't be evil" as a motto. But management believes it's a worthwhile sacrifice.'"
Re:Don't^H^H^H^H^H (Score:2, Informative)
Assuming your question is sincere:
^H is a representation of Control-H, which is the ASCII character for backspace. Try it sometime: instead of hitting your backspace key to delete a character, hold down the Ctrl key and press H. It _should_ work (assuming that it hasn't been mapped to another function).
Jonathan
Re:Bold Statement (Score:2, Informative)
first result: Was There A Massacre In Tiananmen Square 1989? [sinomania.com]
censorship indeed.
You are missing one key thing. (Score:4, Informative)
To use your own analogy this would be like Poland Spring putting lead in their water, and then putting a bit notice on every bottle that said "To comply with Chinese law we have put lead in this water."
If you know the water is posion you can choose to drink elsewhere if you wish.
Googling 'Tianmen Square' at www.google.cn (Score:2, Informative)
Whereas a google.com search yields this [wikipedia.org]
wikipedia article as its first hit with quotes like this:
Tiananmen+Square (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.google.cn/search?hl=zh-CN&q=tiananmen+S quare++&btnG=%E6%90%9C%E7%B4%A2&meta= [google.cn]
Re:Bold Statement (Score:2, Informative)
Comment removed (Score:5, Informative)
The Notice Is There (Score:4, Informative)
"Ju dangdi falü fagui he zhengce, bufen sousuo jieguo weiyu xianshi."
"According to local laws, regulations and policies, part of the search results is not being shown."
Re:Not as evil as the summery leads you to believe (Score:1, Informative)
In 1940s Germany, it was illegal to shelter Jews. According to the local law, those co-operating with Jews were to be shot. And according to your logic, this was quite acceptable, as the executioners were just complying with the local law, while the Jew-helping dissidents were not.
Re:Bold Statement (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Bold Statement (Score:2, Informative)
Exactly which freedoms do you refer to?
I know of no freedoms/rights in the United states which we do not have in Sweden. I do however know of several rights we have in Sweden which are lacking in the United states.
A few examples:
We have something called human rights. Perhaps you have heard of it? One example of this is that in Sweden the government cannot put a person in jail without trial. Torture as a interrogation method is also forbidden.
We also abandoned the death sentence a long time ago. In fact, the death sentence does not exist in any EU country. It is one of the conditions for EU membership.
In Sweden we have a right called "the right of public access". Basically this means everyone has the right to be out in the countryside. The only condition is that you act responsible and do not disturb or destroy the nature.
Today "American freedom" is little more than a shadow from the past.
Cool Tools for Tyrants (Score:2, Informative)
Bl..Bl...Blogs....banned in China (Score:2, Informative)
Tibetan Demonstration at Google campus today (Score:2, Informative)