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Google Confirms Chinese Censorship Claims

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the great-wall dept.

UnanimousCoward writes "A spokesperson has responded to the 'censorship' questions in this article: '"Google has decided that in order to create the best possible search experience for our mainland China users we will not include sites whose content is not accessible," company spokeswoman Debbie Frost said Friday.'" Our original article ran on Wednesday.

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  1. big deal by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 5, Informative
    So...news.google.com, not the main engine, is being talked about here. And the articles not being shown are the ones that wouldn't show up anyway. And this is only for Chinese-language search. Yeah, Voice of America (voanews.com) is definitely blocked, BBC News too. I'm in China...other than a few news sites it's rare I get blocked, and when I do, I just use a regular squid proxy to get by.

    Doing no evil doesn't necessarily mean Google has to be the progressive cause for change," Li said. "(In China), they are saying, 'This is the law of the land, and there is nothing we can do to change it.'"

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    Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
  2. Re:Would it be better if China took Google offline by k98sven · · Score: 5, Informative

    If Google indexed banned sites, then they would still be available via Google's cache.

    Nope. China already blocks Google's cache, as well as most proxies they can find.

    Would it be better if China took Google offline entirely?

    Not from their point of view. It's a too obvious a form of censorship. They want to maintain the illusion of freedom as much as possible. That's why they don't want Google listing these banned pages to begin with; it makes the censorship more obvious.