Google Accuses China of Interfering With Gmail 131
Hugh Pickens writes "The Guardian reports that Google has accused the Chinese government of interfering with Gmail. According to the search giant, Chinese customers and advertisers have increasingly been complaining about their Gmail service in the past month and attempts by users to send messages, mark messages as unread and use other services have generated problems for Gmail customers. The announcement follows a blog posting from Google on 11 March in which the firm said it had 'noticed some highly targeted and apparently politically motivated attacks against our users. We believe activists may have been a specific target.' The search firm is not commenting further on this latest attack, but technology experts said it seemed to show an increasingly high degree of sophistication."
Old news? (Score:5, Insightful)
Behind the Red Door... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Why always 'blame China' and not 'blame Chinese (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Behind the Red Door... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Just stop doing business with them. (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Behind the Red Door... (Score:2, Insightful)
> China is a capitalist country, with a veneer of communism,
Jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo might beg to differ...
http://www.google.com/search?q=chinese+peace+prize+jailed [google.com]
Re:Just stop doing business with them. (Score:5, Insightful)
>>>You could just stop buying everything made in China. But then there wouldn't be very much left you could buy.
You could just stop buying.
Wise advice for a US culture
~$120,000 in personal debt
(plus another 140,000/home national debt).
Re:Behind the Red Door... (Score:5, Insightful)
Response like this means China's propaganda absolutely is taking hold. Its really pretty sad so many so so weak minded.
They are an aristocracy of communist rule where capitalism is growing and leveraged only so long as it benefits the communist party. Its an extremely weird blend of communism and capitalism with very clear shades of every growing fascism. But no bones about it, China is still very much communist at its core.
The state still owes everything The state still takes from A and gives to B - except where that can be deferred via bribes; and then only at the whim of the party. The giving of A to B is typically to empower additional income via capitalism such that the monies can be used to further the power base and dominance of the communist party.
Even the extremely wealthy, who have made all of their money via capitalism, absolutely understand they must be gracious to the communist in power else they can lose everything over night. So while they do participate in a capitalistic trade, they do so only to further the means and reach of the communistic party.
Lastly, I also get the impression people confuse capitalism with democracy . One does not depend on the other. Which is why, for example, much of the pro-pirate community are actually advocating socialism; although frequently far too ignorant to realize it.
a yes, here's our false equivalency morons (Score:4, Insightful)
bound to pop up in any discussion like this
sir: with your words, you are only announcing your profound ignorance of places outside of the west, and what it is really like there
let's just say that if you were chinese, in china, or iranian, in iran, or cuban, in cuba, you wouldn't dare criticize the chinese or iranian or cuban government like you criticize the usa. you criticize the usa however, with impunity, merely because you are perfectly free and entitled to do so. and i'm glad you do. is anyone knocking on your door sir? no? is anyone in the american government going to persecute you for the words you just wrote? no?
so when you realize the truth of how different it is for citizens in these other countries to express themselves freely, maybe you can begin to understand the subject matter you are so ignorantly commenting on