PR Google
February 1st, 2006
Remember that it’s not just Google:
“A similar dilemma faces foreign content providers such as Yahoo!, AOL and Google who abide by PRC government wishes, including having internal content monitors, in order to be able to operate within mainland China. Also, in accordance with mainland Chinese laws, Microsoft began to censor the content of its blog service MSN Spaces.”
– Wikipedia
- BBC: Google move ‘black day’ for China
- Amnesty International: China: Google and others must end complicity in restricting freedoms
- Wikipedia: Internet Censorship in China
- blog.outer-court.com: Examples of censorship
- Wikipedia: Hu Jintao
UPDATE: I’m off to see Alan Cox from RedHat and Megan Larkon from NASA speak at the Sheffield Linux User Group meeting tomorrow. If anyone fancies meeting up for a drink or anything, drop me a line.
Political activism to make up for that goatse comic?
I predict a “Everybody loves Everybody loves Eric Raymond” where you will star in a comic saying you’re the community’s “moral compass for fuck’s sake! THEIR MORAL COMPASS”.
I wondered about the google screenshot until I noticed the advertisments. Pure comedy gold.
“I predict a “Everybody loves Everybody loves Eric Raymond” where you will star in a comic saying you’re the community’s “moral compass for fuck’s sake! THEIR MORAL COMPASS”.”
Well, targets without humour are better suited to attacks like this comic strip thingie. Of course, the possibilities for recursive webcomix would be endless… (pun intended).
ESR calls it a “Free Market”, as in gratis? :)
As was said about yahoo/etc. they all agreed to the PRC demands *without thought*.
I am sad that google agreed to this — but I predict that the PRC isn’t clued in about, say, talk.google.com. “What you mean our citizens can talk freely with each other?”
in the screen shot, what was the chinese say?
Is there a writeup of Alan Cox’s talk anywhere? I see he’s done some similar ones about 6-8 years ago, but presumably his talk’s been updated since then…
http://www.linux.org.uk/Talks.cs
The people in power in China have not yet figured out (fully) how to allow the power of a relatively free market to operate, without they themselves becoming subject to the whims of those same market forces.
They have not yet figured out that they can do what England did and set up “feudal” landholding family companies. Since there is no private ownership of land, there won’t seem to be any change to the peasants.
beautifull
proxy
:) beautifull !!!!!!!!!!!
Google itself is a kind of a “big brother” that knows everything about us and about our sites, surfing habits and e-mail. So why wouldn’t it cooperate with the people in power in China? It looks like they have a lot in common…
On the other hand, Google allows us access to a huge amount of priceless information. This has its cost…
משתלות, this isn’t their information. it is ours. google just makes money on it.
Google is playing the company role..
in that perspective they are of course correct
its all about the money..
when i first learned about the internet
(I was a teenager when the internet boom hit)
i was sure it would be run by some united countries committee
but most of the information is being cataloged by Google and
other search engines.. i really think that even if to remain in private
hands ownership we should have an alternative
for searching in a “safe” (politically correct) environment.
still, in our current era when the technology
is still being established it wont happen
maybe in the future.