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.

Comments

Re:I only hope

[Vinegar Joe]

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

Re:Germany still censored

[nospam007]

"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

Re:Falun Gong

[lobsterturd]

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

No cherry picking

[FatAlb3rt]

"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."

Re:A Business Decision?

[Abcd1234]

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.

Re:No they haven't!

[resfilter]

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.

Re:I only hope

[trenton]

From the TFA:

Jiang Yu, a spokeswoman at China's Foreign Ministry, said ... "The case will be handled in a just and lawful manner." Jiang didn't answer a question on when there will be a trial.

Gimmie more of that Chinese justice!