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Google Moving PRC Records Out of China
Lam1969 writes "Google says it is moving search records out of China and back to the U.S. to prevent the Chinese government from accessing them, reports Computerworld. Additionally, the company will let Chinese users know when search results are being censored. According to Peter Norvig, Google's director of research, 'Some of the people want to query about democracy, but most of them just want to know about their pop stars.'"
It is interesting that an American company are moving data out of China,
in order to make it inaccessible to Chinese law.
At the same time American (and some other countires) law is assuming more
global coverage.
back to the U.S. to prevent the Chinese government from accessing them
Yeah, great idea - Because, y'know, the "land of the free" would never try to force Google to turn over its search records. And certainly never for something as frivolous as trying to further the religious agenda of right-wing crackpots... Oh, I mean "democracy". Slip of the tongue there, please ignore it.
So will we hear tomorrow that they've moved all search records involving porn to Japan, to protect them from the US government?
Yeah, and the fact that the present administration is holding anyone indefinitely without trial--U.S. citizens or no--is totally against the principles for which we're supposedly fighting.
No, China would never do something like that.
What kind of fucking bubble world do some of you idiots live in? Yes, our rights are being eroded away and the US government is doing many bad things and we need to fight that but don't be so stupid as to let that diminish the much worse atrocities of certain other governments.
Mmmm.. Donuts