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Google's Action Makes A Mockery Of Its Values

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-think-about dept.

Jason Jardine linked us to a well written piece discussing how Google has thus far promised to Do No Evil, but their recent decisions regarding censorship in china make a mockery of those values. We've been following this story all along, but I thought this article makes good food for thought.

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  1. Google should publish the filter list by mcguirez · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hold up to public scrutiny what China wants to hide.

    Publish the blocked list.

    While this doesn't solve the problem of Google pandering to the Chinese regime, it can demonstrate to the rest of the world exactly what China is afraid will unbalance it's leaderships power. Raising the visibility of banned authors and topics will help undermine their attempt to limit knowledge.

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  2. Re:Hypocracy apparent: google.com vs google.cn by benjjj · · Score: 5, Interesting

    a more telling example is a search for "falun gong" on each google site. the one's at .cn are clearly anti-FG propaganda, while .com results mostly document chinese gov abuses of FG practitioners. in this cases, it looks like google isn't simply censoring search results, it's helping the chinese gov't to spread propaganda.