Scary censorship
05 February 2006, 11:03 AM
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Scary censorship
Search Tiananmen from normal Google and get the expected results
http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen
Search from the Chinese version and get something much different
http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen
How bad is that??? !!
That's just wrong
http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen
Search from the Chinese version and get something much different
http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen
How bad is that??? !!
That's just wrong
05 February 2006, 11:14 AM
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Must be a mistake.
The olymipcs are due to be held there soon and there is no way this would happen, with any doubts as to their record or policies on human rights. I really doubt there would be any censorship or misleading of the population or others by the govenrment. Their record on human rights and humanitarian issues are second to none.
Or at least that's what the Chinese government official told me when i asked
The olymipcs are due to be held there soon and there is no way this would happen, with any doubts as to their record or policies on human rights. I really doubt there would be any censorship or misleading of the population or others by the govenrment. Their record on human rights and humanitarian issues are second to none.
Or at least that's what the Chinese government official told me when i asked
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05 February 2006, 11:42 AM
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do you know theres a law in china, that news broadcast must not show bad news.
only happy cheerful things, like mr chow has a new bike, mrs li got a new girl (again)
only happy cheerful things, like mr chow has a new bike, mrs li got a new girl (again)
05 February 2006, 01:46 PM
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Google, Microsoft, Cisco, and Yahoo! were yesterday roundly condemned for "collaborating with China to censor the internet", Reuters reports. During a briefing by the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, representative Tim Ryan said: "They should not let profits take precedence over traditional democratic values such as freedom of speech."
Google is accused of agreeing to Chinese censorship of search results in the Beijing-friendly version of its search engine. Microsoft has admitted similar acquiescence. Yahoo! was last year blasted for "allegedly providing online information to the government that allowed it to find and jail a Chinese journalist critical of the government". Cisco is also accused of "helping the government track cyber-dissidents".
Representative Tom Lantos added: "With all their power and influence, wealth and high visibility, they neglected to commit to the kind of positive action that human rights activists in China take every day. They caved in to Beijing's demands for the sake of profits."
None of the four companies attended the briefing, but Microsoft and Yahoo! issued a joint press statement which demanded US government intervention in the matter: "We urge the United States government to take a leadership role in this regard and have initiated a dialogue with relevant US officials to encourage such government-to-government engagement.
"We want to assure members of Congressional Human Rights Caucus and the public at large that we do not consider the internet situation in China to be one of 'business-as usual'."
Microsoft also announced yesterday that in future it will "only pull content from MSN when it receives official legal notice that content breaks local laws or MSN's terms and conditions".
The accused quartet has been "summoned" to a February 16 hearing of the House International Relations Subcommittee, by New Jersey Republican and subcommittee chairman Chris Smith. Smith recently said in statement that Google "would enable evil by cooperating with China's censorship policies just to make a buck".
Google is accused of agreeing to Chinese censorship of search results in the Beijing-friendly version of its search engine. Microsoft has admitted similar acquiescence. Yahoo! was last year blasted for "allegedly providing online information to the government that allowed it to find and jail a Chinese journalist critical of the government". Cisco is also accused of "helping the government track cyber-dissidents".
Representative Tom Lantos added: "With all their power and influence, wealth and high visibility, they neglected to commit to the kind of positive action that human rights activists in China take every day. They caved in to Beijing's demands for the sake of profits."
None of the four companies attended the briefing, but Microsoft and Yahoo! issued a joint press statement which demanded US government intervention in the matter: "We urge the United States government to take a leadership role in this regard and have initiated a dialogue with relevant US officials to encourage such government-to-government engagement.
"We want to assure members of Congressional Human Rights Caucus and the public at large that we do not consider the internet situation in China to be one of 'business-as usual'."
Microsoft also announced yesterday that in future it will "only pull content from MSN when it receives official legal notice that content breaks local laws or MSN's terms and conditions".
The accused quartet has been "summoned" to a February 16 hearing of the House International Relations Subcommittee, by New Jersey Republican and subcommittee chairman Chris Smith. Smith recently said in statement that Google "would enable evil by cooperating with China's censorship policies just to make a buck".
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