Google Stands Ground on Google.cn

nmccart writes "Google gave testimony on Friday to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on International Relations. They discussed their decision to build google.cn in China. Elliot Schrage, the vice president for global communications and public affairs at Google describes how these China-based servers fit in to Google's mantra of 'Don't be evil.' Google hopes to use this as an opportunity to help bring global censorship into the spotlight of American politics. Will it work?"

Comments

Re:Picture is worth 1k words

[tpgp]

what exactly is being censored when searching "kazaa?" what should i be seeing that im not? i see kazaa.com as the first result, isn't that the correct site?

The complaint was made by kazaa, not about kazaa.

Scroll to the bottom of the page & you see:

In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org.

Re:Picture is worth 1k words

[kamapuaa]

Your comparison is specious, because what's called the Tianmen Square incident in America is called the 6-4 incident in China. A more fair comparison would be:

http://images.google.cn/images?svnum=10&hl=zh-CN&l r=&cr=countryCN&newwindow=1&q=%E5%85%AD%E5%9B%9B&b tnG=%E6%90%9C%E7%B4%A2

Anyway, Tianmen Square is famous for a number of reasons in China, not just the Tianmen Square incident.

Re:Google.cn

[cyranose]

I've heard that it was temporarily redirected, but I'm not sure if that's China's doing or Google's (China was previously redirecting Google.com to other search engines). According to Google's official statement, Google.com is as available there as possible. If they are lying, it would surprise me.

There are other ways of offering proxies that people are working on. There is no perfect solution thus far.