Um, sadly, people will believe an untruth if they have it fed to them often enough. Here in the USA, everybody believes that copying copyrighted digital materials is theft, not copyright infringement, and they believe it because the RIAA and MPAA say so.
Yahoo! isn't cutting out search results -- they're completely disabling search terms that are not PRC-friendly. If they were just filtering out or refusing to index certain pages, then that wouldn't be as bad; however, what they are doing is forbidding people from using certain words in the search engine. If enough people stop using a word, then perhaps people will forget the word and the meaning behind it...
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Regardless, it is pretty cool that China, given their track record for openness and freedom of speech, is open to scientific progress.
Um, sadly, people will believe an untruth if they have it fed to them often enough. Here in the USA, everybody believes that copying copyrighted digital materials is theft, not copyright infringement, and they believe it because the RIAA and MPAA say so. Yahoo! isn't cutting out search results -- they're completely disabling search terms that are not PRC-friendly. If they were just filtering out or refusing to index certain pages, then that wouldn't be as bad; however, what they are doing is forbidding people from using certain words in the search engine. If enough people stop using a word, then perhaps people will forget the word and the meaning behind it...
Well, if he wasn't fired before, he sure is now...