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.

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[Kaiwen]

China owns Taiwan

Aside from the fact that the article you linked to reaches exactly the opposite conclusion, the fact is Taiwanese sovereignty is still held in trust by the U.S. government, which never fulfilled its promise to return it to the ROC, partly due to the fact that the U.N. never fulfilled its promise to discuss the issue.

The ROC being the successor government to the Ming Dynasty -- together with the Cairo Declaration's explicitly stated intent to return the island to the ROC ( not the PRC, which, despite its blustering, has never had a credible claim to the island) -- makes the ROC's claim the only legitimate one. In addition, Taiwan's right to self-determination, as spelled out in the U.N. charter, means but one thing: China does not own Taiwan.

Has google censored DCSS and Kazaa links yet?

[HanzoSan]

Speaking of censorship, what about censorship on our own turf? Google has been good to us so far and has not gone and censored the search results however, how much longer before the RIAA and MPAA sues google for linking to the wrong links?