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China Says Google Pledged To Obey Censorship Demands
bonhomme_de_neige writes "China renewed Google's internet license after it pledged to obey censorship laws and stop automatically switching mainland users to its unfiltered Hong Kong site, an official said. Google promised to 'obey Chinese law' and avoid linking to material deemed a threat to national security or social stability, said Zhang Feng, director of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's Telecoms Development Department, at a news conference."
Update: 07/21 21:56 GMT by S : Changed headline to reflect that this is mainly just China trying to paint a better picture of the outcome. In a comment on the linked article, a Google representative said, "This piece suggests that Google has 'bowed' to censorship. That is not correct. We have been very clear about our committment [sic] to not censor our products for users in China. The products we have kept on Google.cn (Music, Translate, Product Search) do not require any censorship by Google. Other products, like web search, we are offering from Google.com.hk, and without censorship." If you go to google.cn, you can see the prominent link to the Hong Kong version of the site.
Let's hope China does no evil.
"Cats like plain crisps"
Their new motto: Try not to be evil..... :-(
O-p-p-r-e-s-s-i-v-e G-o-v-e-r-n-m-e-n-t
[Google Search]
"Your search - Oppressive Government - did not match any documents."
"Did you mean Outstanding Government?"
The time has come to let go of our juvenile and silly notions of individual freedoms and embrace the blessings of a single stable, hard working party.
I applaud google for showing proper respect to the people of china.
Just kidding. Google did the right thing. I wholeheartedly applaud the googlers for their courage and deftness in turning the google hacking crisis into an opportunity.
Bravo to you sirs! Bravo indeed!
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Fixed your post for you. Now, what part of "automatically" is confusing you? Do you need me to break out the <blink> tag? I'll do it. I'll do it, man. I'm a troll on the edge.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Come on guys. At least read the whole thing, and not just the title, before publishing. And I mean the comments too.
r maybe he did read the story and is basing it on that and the summary is wrong?
I mean, really,you are admitting you are ignorant of the article and still correcting someone else bevasue you think they are ignorant.
Do you see the flaw there?
I haven't read it either, but I'm not correcting people. I have seen far to many summaries and headline be completely wrong. Sometime they have been so fictitious you can't even call them wrong.
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The photo of the student confronting tanks isn't a national security risk.
So they won't have to filter that.
Are you mad? Then everyone will know their tanks aren't student-proof! It'll be the end of China!
You can't take the sky from me...