Update; [OT] Google is now 'they'.





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> Charles has some very interesting results for two different searches on
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> word 'tiannamen' using regular 'google' and 'china google'
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> www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog
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> "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and
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> pig to man again, but already it was impossible to say which was which."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/27/google_doesnt_censor/

Google pulls 'we don't censor' statement
Do be evil!
By Lester Haines
Published Friday 27th January 2006 12:31 GMT

Google's support centre has pulled an answer to the topical question "Does
Google censor search results?" Since the answer clearly stated the company
"does not censor results for any search term", and given the company's
recent foray into the lucrative Chinese search engine market, it seems fair
that the internet monolith would probably want to review that particular
stance and relegate the offending item to cache.

Yup, democracy is not a word you want to be flashing about when you've just
opened a big fat Yuan bank account.

For the record, Google's justification for agreeing to censorship of search
results on Google China is, as Sergey Brin put it: "We ultimately made a
difficult decision, but we felt that by participating there, and making our
services more available, even if not to the 100 percent that we ideally
would like, it will be better for Chinese Web users, because ultimately they
would get more information, though not quite all of it."

Chinese news website Xinhua kicks off its "China welcomes running dog lackey
imperialist search engine" piece with: "By creating a unique address for
China, Google hopes to make its search engine more widely available and
easier to use in the world's most populous country."

It does, however, quickly move on to a refreshingly frank analysis of
Google's real motivation: "China already has more than 100 million web
surfers and the audience is expected to swell substantially - an alluring
prospect for Google as it tries to boost its already rapidly rising
profits."

Don't be evil? Don't make us laugh. ®

Update
Reuters reports that Google and other internet companies have been "called"
to attend a "Congressional Human Rights Caucus hearing on Wednesday and a
February 16 session of the House of Representatives subcommittee on Global
Human Rights".

The latter invitation is at the behest of New Jersey Republican and
subcommittee chairman Chris Smith, who said in a statement that Google
"would enable evil by cooperating with China's censorship policies just to
make a buck."

Cisco Microsoft and Yahoo! will also join "State Department officials and
press freedom watchdog groups" at the 16 February shindig.

Whether Bill Gates will attend is unkown, but he today weighed into the
debate by declaring: "I think [the internet] is contributing to Chinese
political engagement. Access to the outside world is preventing more
censorship.

Speaking In Davos, Switzerland, Gates added that concerns about censorship
or widespread piracy in China should not deter firms from doing business
there.


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