Search Engine Activism

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Anyone hear about Googles recent deal to self-censor its searches in China?

Strangely enough I couldnt find anything about it when I googled...
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
"In order to operate from China, we have removed some content from the search results available on google.cn, in response to local law, regulation or policy. While removing search results is inconsistent with Google's mission, providing no information (or a heavily degraded user experience that amounts to no information) is more inconsistent with our mission."

Hmm, maybe. I think that however they try and justify it, aiding the Chinese government in cracking down on people searching for controlled words and phrases such as "freedom" and "Tiananmen" is just wrong. (It should be noted however that Yahoo and Microsoft and others I think already do this.)
 
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