Google Reported Ready To Leave China April 10 176
A number of readers including tsj5j and bruleriestdenis wrote to alert us to this CNET story: "Google is expected to announce on Monday that it will withdraw from China on April 10, according to a report in a Beijing-based newspaper that cited an unidentified sales associate who works with the company. 'I have received information saying that Google will leave China on April 10, but this information has not at present been confirmed by Google,' the China Business News quoted the agent as saying. The report also said Google would reveal its plans for its China-based staff that day."
It's time to chew bubble gum and kick ass... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:hmm... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:hmm... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's time to chew bubble gum and kick ass... (Score:5, Funny)
Dude, do you know how much money Google has? They never run out of anything.
Re:It's time to chew bubble gum and kick ass... (Score:3, Funny)
The chinese government stole all of their bubble gum. That's why google is so upset.
Re:hmm... (Score:2, Funny)
Speaking as someone with ties to the Chinese government, I can confirm that they will be murdered.
The joyful side of censorship (Score:4, Funny)
No worries, they can't see it. I'm sure it is filtered..
Re:I'm with Google. (Score:1, Funny)
Please mod down parent!
Re:hmm... (Score:4, Funny)
And as a real AC, I make air cooler.
Re:hmm... (Score:5, Funny)
If all of this was happening in Japan, the upcoming search engine would be called Moogle.
Re:What does it mean to "leave"? (Score:2, Funny)
Pet peeve: Why is hyperbolic rhetoric like this increasingly being modded to +5 Insightful?
You could have easily stated that China has a history of blocking non-vetted search engines without the sarcastic comment and nerdy in-joke. Rhetoric like this looks halfway-legitimate to somebody who is not intimately familiar with the topic being discussed, and helps spread misinformation. As far as I'm aware, there's no official known policy, and certainly no "motto"
Slightly offtopic, but I bring this up, because I keep seeing throngs of protesters visibly upset because the healthcare bill will pay for abortions and death-panels, despite the fact that these two claims are bold-faced lies. Misinformation and sarcastic/hyperbolic rhetoric is having a *huge* adverse impact on the state of political discourse, and knowledge in general in our society. Remember: your words, no matter where you say them, or how insignificant they are, do have tangible consequences.
I don't implicitly trust China, although you could certainly provide plenty of legitimate and verifiable evidence to support that claim. The only mod that this post could possibly deserve is +Funny. If this passes as "information" or "insight," then we have failed as a society.
Re:I'm with Google. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I'm with Google. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Apirl? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's time to chew bubble gum and kick ass... (Score:3, Funny)
Too bad the Chinese have kung fu and a few millenia of practice in martial warfare. Google has... a bunch of nerds in Silicon Valley hyped up on caffeine.
Re:It's time to chew bubble gum and kick ass... (Score:4, Funny)