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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

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.

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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 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).

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?

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.

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…

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.

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