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Google Reported Ready To Leave China April 10
A number of readers including tsj5j and bruleriestdenis wrote to alert us to this CNET story: "Google is expected to announce on Monday that it will withdraw from China on April 10, according to a report in a Beijing-based newspaper that cited an unidentified sales associate who works with the company. 'I have received information saying that Google will leave China on April 10, but this information has not at present been confirmed by Google,' the China Business News quoted the agent as saying. The report also said Google would reveal its plans for its China-based staff that day."
And google is all out of bubble gum.
Yeah, they're not so bad. I mean, c'mon! China's so damn generous with their transplantable organs, how bad could they possibly be?
Who wants to raise funds to send this guy there?
Speaking as someone with ties to the Chinese government, I can confirm that they will be murdered.
Imagine how depressing this must be for Google China employees.
No worries, they can't see it. I'm sure it is filtered..
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
Please mod down parent!
And as a real AC, I make air cooler.
If all of this was happening in Japan, the upcoming search engine would be called Moogle.
Pet peeve: Why is hyperbolic rhetoric like this increasingly being modded to +5 Insightful?
You could have easily stated that China has a history of blocking non-vetted search engines without the sarcastic comment and nerdy in-joke. Rhetoric like this looks halfway-legitimate to somebody who is not intimately familiar with the topic being discussed, and helps spread misinformation. As far as I'm aware, there's no official known policy, and certainly no "motto"
Slightly offtopic, but I bring this up, because I keep seeing throngs of protesters visibly upset because the healthcare bill will pay for abortions and death-panels, despite the fact that these two claims are bold-faced lies. Misinformation and sarcastic/hyperbolic rhetoric is having a *huge* adverse impact on the state of political discourse, and knowledge in general in our society. Remember: your words, no matter where you say them, or how insignificant they are, do have tangible consequences.
I don't implicitly trust China, although you could certainly provide plenty of legitimate and verifiable evidence to support that claim. The only mod that this post could possibly deserve is +Funny. If this passes as "information" or "insight," then we have failed as a society.
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
+1 Funny
Cantankerous old coot since 1957.
Mod it down? Wimp. This is China. Admins, delete the message immediately.
I really that would be hilarious.
Keep your eyes to the sky.