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Google Suggest Disabled In China Due To Porn
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The Chinese government has asked Google to disable Google Suggest because it has been suggesting that people search for pornography based on its analysis of the most popular search terms in China. This comes on the heels of a fake CCTV interview being used to support the government requirement that all new computers ship with the 'Green Dam' Internet censoring program, which is still in force, despite reports to the contrary." The story on the chinaSMACK site demonstrates that Chinese search engine Baidu features a comparable search-suggestion function, which similarly recommends adult-themed sites, but that the government has not attacked Baidu over the issue of porn.
Let's face it, the Chinese government censors and blocks whatever they feel like, the Chinese people know and accept it.
So why does slashdot post these stories anytime XXX blocks/censors anything in China? Let's face it, it's not news anymore. It doesn't affect my rights online or anybody else's outside China.
Perhaps I am completely wrong but it seems like China is giving preferential treatment to the Chinese owned competitor to Google, Baidu, by not taking it to task for the same offending practices, even though it holds a lead over Google in searches in China. I certainly would not put it above China to be using government intervention to give favor to Chinese company. But I must admit I really don't like China, The chinese are great people but their government is scary.
...the issue of porn.
Because porn is not the issue, democratic porn is!
God forbid the Chinese learn how free sex is!
All the reports about Green Dam I have read have said that computers only need to "ship with" it. In fact, some reports said that it was OK for manufacturers to just stick a CD in the package. That doesn't mean people are required to use it, merely that they have the software available if they want to.
So, what's the deal? Are PCs merely required to "ship with" the software, or are they required to install it? Are are people required to use it?
That site must have some freaking amazing pagerank, since every single site hosted in China is required to register and link to it.
It isn't a big news and it is not new for sure.
So, in China, do they look for caucasian porn?
The cutest Oklahoma schoolgirls! Now with all their teeth!*
*schoolgirls is 18 in America, so tough, you caucasian fetishists you.
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China is just doing this to give its own search engines a competitive edge. It does this with the film industry by only allowing 10 foreign films to be shown in China per year.
The day that government's and people in general get over their neurotic reactions to pornography is the day when you will see Authoritarianism die and Civilization flourish. Pornography, like it or lump it, is a signpost of Civilization and Freedom.
Google Suggestive.
China was a rule by decree country. Who you know is very important in China. Laws are considered by many Chinese to by somewhat flexible if you know the right person. Laws are administered at the local and provincial levels of government. This means consistency in law enforcement is lacking.
I for one welcome our new Chinese porn addicted disabled overlords!
I'm a rabbit startled by the headlights of life
Given the user friendliness of the Windows installer, installing Windows XP should be quite easy.
My guess is that if google is suggesting porn, then it is probably for a reason...
Sir! Sir! I type "hot naked" into google and it suggested girls! We must stop this monstrosity!!!!
Is not going to return any sites that I host - find it far to abusive a search bot - uses 10x the bandwidth of even NineMSN's bot...
Every now and then I see posts like yours, and can't help thinking "another lunatic with wierd-ass thought process like mine".
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Won't someone please think about the children?
From TFS : all new computers ship with the 'Green Damn' Internet censoring program. Is that a typo or the reaction of Chinese men, when they discover, that they can't surf porn anymore?
Google should disable the internet in china.
Maybe porn is the most popular search in China. You don't get to a billion people by being prudish...
Just a point of clarification that this applies to google.cn, and obviously does not apply to google.com, which those of us in Beijing can also see.
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> From TFS : all new computers ship with the 'Green Damn' Internet censoring program. Is that a typo or the reaction of Chinese men, when they discover, that they can't surf porn anymore?
I'd say that it's both, but the typo isn't quite accidental. Maybe I shouldn't have used it there, but what can I say? I guess I'm a bit prone to abusing language as a form of protest. The Chinese do it too. I suggest looking up the issue with the "grass mud horse" or "river crab" (harmonious) society. Both of those terms have been used to evade censorship, too, incidentally.
For whatever it's worth, the correct name of the censorship software is "Green Dam" though I have no idea if we'll have to start calling it something else due to censorship. Incidentally, the Chinese net censorship initiative is called "Operation Golden Shield," so they like use colour adjectives for some reason. I'm not really sure why.
- I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property
P.S. In the unlikely event that people are wondering if I'm the same guy as before, given that I sometimes use the Facebook link as well as the EFF donate link, I am. I didn't start it, but I do endorse the Facebook group, which I believe was started by the fine folks at Against Monopoly. I'm not, personally, a Libertarian, mind you, though I find a lot of common ground with that group. My personal views don't mesh well with any particular political group, save perhaps the Pirate Party, which has a rather limited party platform.
why is everything
Try typing that in.
Google: Hi, I'm Google, can I haz intertubes find n China?
China: Yesh, U can haz interwebs hunt here, but you must disable all non-approved China-no-fun-bag itemz, ktnx?
Google: Hmmmmmmmmmmm, block da information packets?
China: Yesh, for moneys k.
Google: Hmmmmm human rights to information or moneys.... Hmmmm.... OK DEELS!
China: Yay!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i9ddm5_njw
What I don't understand is why anyone would want to ban sex related sites in the absence of religion.
You would think that of all nations, China would be encouraging as much private sexual release as possible given their male:female ratio and large population. Honestly; I am baffled.
A government is a body of people notably ungoverned - AC
The software is required to be delivered with by manufacturers on harddisc or one CD. It was never intended to be required to run as a user [wikipedia.org]. The scope of the software is mainly parental control. This hole thing in the media about censorshipware sounds like yet another propaganda campagne by the West.
Whenever I'm at Google's search box, it keeps suggesting all kinds of profanity as though it's trying to distract me with `Lesbian Strapon "index of" "name last modified" 'and whatnot. Most useless feature they can allow. I do however like when after I make a search that it has a URL on the resulting collection that would recommend a more accurate search string.
Funny how every repressive regime from the extremely non-religous to the extremely religous are obsessed with contolling their captors' sexuality.
Has anyone considered that they have not pressured the baidu search engine because it points to CHINESE porn sites and doesn't display sex acts by these barbarian round eyed animals like Google does??
v 2girlz1cup
v brazilian fart porn.
? Chinese google suggest porn.
I do not see poor wording of a title making you click on the story to read it as being offtopic, but to each his own.