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Google.cn Has Already Lifted Censorship
An anonymous reader writes "In an update to Google's withdrawal from China, there are reports that censorship has already been lifted. It's probably taken a while to report because of Google's ranking system." Just a warning that the language on that blog post is NSFW but it does provide evidence.
"Status @ 22:30 NZT, 17:30 Beijing time, 13-01-10: Despite reports to the contrary Google.cn is still censored."
Attitudes make the difference between Space and Time: we want to MAX our temporal, and MIN our spatial extension.
Yeah I think the Chinese government will now cease all property that belongs to Google, send all employees to work camps......
You mean like Stern Hu, the Australian executive for Rio Tinto, who has been held by the Chinese since July 5, 2009?
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=aq9DMlCuW45M
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
"In Germany we can just switch from the censored google.de to the uncensored google.com"
But you may need to add /ncr to the google url to avoid automatic country redirection depending on your location.
http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=873
That's how the Great Firewall tells you that something is "inappropriate." search.cn.yahoo.com is located in China, and the GFW is applied to all Internet traffic passing in/out of China, not just consumer machines, so it's not Yahoo that's blocking that particular term but the government.
This will work with any Mainland Chinese site, for example: http://www.mps.gov.cn/Falun%20Gong
Censorship in Germany and many other European countries is done under the guise of "protecting the children" ("Jugendschutz").
Germany hasn't really learned from it's past and is heavily promoting censorship as a solution to all issues. For example, it is illegal to deny that the holocaust happened.
"Current Status @ 23:30 NZT, 18:30 Beijing time, 13-01-10: Heaps of reports of uncensored stuff. My post below may not be accurate. The images below show massive differences between google.cn results and google.com.hk results. The difference may be just a residual effect of the censorship - because Google ranks stuff based on links, previously censored materials may still be poorly ranked, even though they're no longer censored."
Uh, they already said there were business considerations. Specifically, their systems, along with those of quite a few other large companies, were hacked in order to gain information about Chinese dissidents.
although the results are still slightly fitered, you are searching incorrectly.
the chinese people refer to the tiananmen square protest as the june fourth incident.
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Cisco, our motto is the "Human Network". What we really mean is, the "Repress Humans Network". After all John Chambers needs his rogaine for that 3 hair comb over he sports, and that stuff isn't cheap! CVS Pharmacy started locking it up!
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/4/30/163555.shtml
Thank god Yahoo is such a joke because their search results are particularly nasty. Not only do they not show results if you search for Falun Gong, but it will block you from doing ANY other searches (for a while) if you even try. Yahoo would be dangerous if they were a stronger company that anyone gave a shit about.
That's not Yahoo, that's the Great Firewall between you and Yahoo.cn. If you would be searching Google.com while in China for "Falun Gong", the Google connection would be reset as well, since the traffic would go through the "Golden Shield".
Even the definition of "poor" has changed. The "poor" chinese of today would have been considered well-off less than a hundred years ago.
I don't necessarily disagree with you on the other points, but it seems that this is largely true of the developed world...
Gimmie more of that Chinese justice!
Too big to fail? Does that make me to small to succeed?