China Hits Back At Google

sopssa writes "After Google yesterday started redirecting google.cn users to their uncensored Hong Kong-based google.com.hk servers, the Chinese government has now hit back at Google by restricting access to Google's Hong Kong servers. 'On Tuesday mainland China users could not see uncensored Hong Kong-based content after the government either disabled certain searches or blocked links to results.' China Mobile, the largest wireless carrier in the country, has also been approached by the Chinese government to cancel a contract with Google about having google.cn on their mobile home page for search. China Unicom, the second largest carrier in China, has also either postponed or killed the launch of Android-based mobile phones in the country."

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[Un pobre guey]

Still, people will want to express their pretentious piousness and show how sacred it all is for them, blah blah blah. Those that live in the US will be quick to point out the heinousness of Chinese policy, but very slow to recognize anything untoward in their own country's policies, foreign or domestic. Way too much Kool-Aid.

Conspiracy theory anyone?

[pablodiazgutierrez]

Google founders are fairly liberal (they donated money to the No on 8 campaign in California, for example), so I wouldn't be surprised if they had a fondness for Obama and his health care plan. The decision to redirect google.cn to the HK version came a few weeks after the initial announcement, but exactly the day after the passing of the health care bill. This would certainly distract some attention away from the right wing scaremongers at FOX and others, which would in turn help the democrats. The timing is just too neat to be casual. Is it?

PS: Nothing that there's anything wrong with the move, should it be like this. Just idly speculating...