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Google Agrees to Censor Results in China

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the caving-under-pressure dept.

neutralino writes "The Associated Press is reporting that Google has agreed to censor results in China. According to the article, 'Google officials characterized the censorship concessions in China as an excruciating decision for a company that adopted "don't be evil" as a motto. But management believes it's a worthwhile sacrifice.'"

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  1. Why should Google help the CCP? by sulli · · Score: 5, Interesting
    China needs Google more than the other way around. Google should tell the Communists to jump off a pier, and let them block Google. They should absolutely not do anything to help the Chinese authorities do what they do best, which is persecute religious minorities and throw people in jail for perfectly capricious reasons.

    I have no problem with selling China cars or airplanes or other stuff like that. But to actively collaborate with the regime in stifling dissent is just too much. After this, I don't think anyone should have any faith at all in their claim that they will stick up to the US Government's fishing expedition.

    Google is dead. Someone new will take their place. Someone who doesn't kowtow to dictators.

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    sulli
    RTFJ.
  2. Re:Not as evil as the summery leads you to believe by aussie_a · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think the moral high ground isn't to get into bed with a facist country for the sake of money. But I can see why Google fans would want to spin that in a positive way. Yes, Google could have done worse. But they're still aiding and abetting the Chinese government.

  3. Re:Tiananmen+Square by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    For those who can't read Chinese, there is a line of text at the bottom of the screen saying "In compliance with local laws and policies, some search results are not being shown."

    You don't tell you how many results have been removed or where those results would fit in the "normal" search results. Personally I think some message that appears for every deleted search result would be less evil than the very subtle, almost un-noticable, message that they have now.

  4. Compare by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Tiananmen+Squ are+&btnG=Google+Search

    http://www.google.cn/search?hl=zh-CN&q=tiananmen+S quare++&btnG=%E6%90%9C%E7%B4%A2&meta=

    The bulk of the English results refer to the massacre. Not oe of google.cn's hits refers to this. Nor is there a reference to the vast omission.

    And they say this is not censorship.