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Google Disappears In China
An anonymous reader submits: "The censorship in China was finally getting better since people were 'allowed' to read the CNN news now (except for certain articles). But since this weekend it seems that a new web page has been censored in China. Since this weekend it looks like everyone in China is not 'allowed' to use google.com anymore. google.com was also gaining populairity in China as the better search engine (which also works fine in Chinese). But now I guess it got too popular and thus not allowed. Or does it have anything to do with Yahoo signing the agreement to censor?" Comments to yesterday's post "Real-Time Testing of China's Internet Filters" also noted that Google has gone missing within China.
Goatse.cx is A-OK by Chinese authorities, but google isn't?
Wow... now that's what I call a strange can of worms.
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
I just tried typing "China" at google.com and I got 24,300,000 results.
:)
Whoever said that china disappearred from google was a complete fucking liar.
It's available from Googles cache.
Err... Never mind.
bash$
Google is run by hackers, not businessmen, I doubt they would do such an immoral thing.
Hellooo? McFly? Anybody home?
They are blocking 2 Billion + people of an Internetsite that's something like the cornerstone of online information!
Don't you also think that a lot of powerpeople in the US and elsewhere envy the chinese powermongers for this? What will the world look like in 10 years from now, when books are getting scarce and drm is all over us like a polyester safari suit and each of us will be paying hard bucks only to view data - and even that will be censored?
Pretty grim if you ask me...
What I'm saying is: This is not the least bit funny!
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Starting testing...
Stage one testing complete.
Stage two testing complete.
Testing complete for http://www.asianhookers.com. Result:
Reported as accessible in China
and the nation of China rejoices.
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. - Paul Feyerabend
Goatse.cx [harvard.edu] is A-OK by Chinese authorities, but google isn't???
Goatse's at harvard?
I figued that guy was from Yale...
-- My Weblog.
"Google was long known as a tool for hackers and perverts," said Truth Minister Chu. "It didn't serve any purpose for the greater good of the people, which is why it presumably went out of business without even a goodbye. Every economist knows this rude, erratic behavior is common among companies that can not find a way to serve the needs state."
Most good citizens won't even miss the Web site.
"It was too boring," said Jie Zhang, a rice farmer. "There was only one picture on the whole site and it was promoting the self-serving ideals of capitalist branding. Plus many of the pages were in other languages, so the site was useless to me. I'm glad I couldn't understand it, because I wouldn't want to be imprisoned for reading dangerous materials."
Many citizens said they have never used Google; they remain true to the official Chinese search engine: http:///www...
(If this had been a real news story, I would have linked to the source. If you still take it seriously after reading this, you deserve to be laughed at. A lot.)
The reason China blocked Slashdot is that when Jiang Xemin saw at how good "The Editors" at Slashdot are at suppressing the community, he knew that if more of his party members saw this degree of suppressive efficacy, he would be deposed, for the good of the people, of course, in favor of Rob Malda as the all new supreme dictator and premier of China.