Google Agrees to Censor Results in China

Breitbart ^ | 01/24/2006 | MICHAEL LIEDTKE

[Right Wing Assault]

Here are a few related links:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1399368/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1398507/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1397619/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1396921/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1396353/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1396346/posts

They also plan (or are currently doing it) to rate their search results based on 'quality', which means if it's from CBS it is high quality, but if it is from a conservative site, that is low quality. All you have to do is click through 150,000 hits to find the story.

[Para-Ord.45]

I use CLUSTY .

http://clusty.com/

[Mojave]

Online search engine leader Google Inc. has agreed to censor its results in China

But Google is refusing to assist our Justice Department's investigation of online pornography and perversion.

[tlj18]

Not true, Israel is listed.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: I use Clusty.

So do I though sometimes I click on google when I am not sure of a spelling. It seems to me that google is very good at guessing what word I intended.

[thomaswest]

Conservatives like me have done very nicely by investing in Google.

This is free enterprise, y'know. Are you saying the guvmint should tell us where to put our money? This would be a very odd view for a FReeper.

As a basis in the 10 Commandments, Google has done nothing wrong. And it has done great for the USA.

Maybe you are just jealous.

[ShadowAce]

[N3WBI3]

Conservatives like me have done very nicely by investing in Google.

Hence you're willing to give them a pass for assisting a communist government oppress its people

This is free enterprise, y'know. Are you saying the guvmint should tell us where to put our money?

I suppose then you think Regan was wrong and should have opened up free trade with the soviet union? After all cant get in the way of free trade and your stock portfolio..

As a basis in the 10 Commandments, Google has done nothing wrong. And it has done great for the USA.

Wow you can pick a chapter out of the Bible and pass someone based on that. Remember the two greatest commandments Love the lord God with all your heart, and love your neighbor as you love yourself... Do you think helping an oppressive government (one the shuts down churches) is loving the people in that nation?

[antiRepublicrat]

Then they turn around and kiss the PRC's despotic behind?

They have to work with the laws of the countries they operate in, and here they think they can get away with it. It's sad that Google would even get in bed with the ChiComs (alongside Cisco, Microsoft and others), but you can see one thing that differentiates them. Rather than have to turn over personal info like Yahoo did, Google just won't offer those services that can ID dissidents.

[Blennos]

I am making a larger point here. Left-wing institutions, whether they be states or companies or non-profits, tend to follow a politically correct party line. Of late this party line has been increasingly anti-US, anti-Bush, anti-Israel, anti-capitalism, etc. You know the litany. It is not difficult to see this pattern realized when Israel, as a good example of a left-wing target, is "mistakenly" left off of a map of the Middle East during a UN briefing or, as in this case, on a Google map. How long before we start seeing maps without Texas or Arizona labeled for fear of offending the Mecha group?

I, for one, vote with my dollars. I will not use Google or buy French products or eat Ben and Jerry's ice cream or watch films with certain obnoxious anti-US actors.

The tendency for organizations in the Western World to show inordinate concern for the feelings of our enemies is galling to me. We go out of our way to demomnstrate respect for the Koran, but "Piss Christ" is a perfectly valid expression of artistic sentiment. I am sick to death of this nonsense.

[Bush2000]

Here, we totally agree. I'm not in favor of compromising our principles in order to promote trade. China is brutal. People are being jailed, tortured, and killed every day. Human life doesn't mean anything to the bastards in Beijing. I don't know how people sleep at night, no matter how fat their portfolios become. We share in the blame by helping them.

[Bush2000]

The tendency for organizations in the Western World to show inordinate concern for the feelings of our enemies is galling to me. We go out of our way to demomnstrate respect for the Koran, but "Piss Christ" is a perfectly valid expression of artistic sentiment. I am sick to death of this nonsense.

There's a reason for this. Liberals tend to embrace socialist and communist tyrants because they see those governments through an idealistic prism. They are devotees of the nanny state, and supporters of unions and entitlements. They want everyone to be "taken care of", and they are somehow willing to tolerate brutal oppression in exchange for Big Brother's cold embrace. I can't count the number of times that I've heard liberals point to Cuba's supposedly wonderful medical system; this, despite the fact that Castro regularly eliminates political dissidents. Similarly, for some sick reason, liberals seem to look at leftist ideologues like Che Guevara as some kind of fashion plate. It's pathetic. They don't even know what kind of evil they're embracing. Revolution just "feels all warm and fuzzy". Even if people get killed.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I think that you can get around any political ranking of found items by subscribing to daily Google (news) Alerts with the keyword(s) of your choice. All the daily news centered around that keyword, relevant or otherwise, will be brought to you. For example, if you used the keyword "Republican-In-Name-Only," you would get conservative stuff relating to Lincoln Chaffee, Olympia Snow, Susan Collins, and John McCain.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Snow = Snowe (not that I care about spelling THAT PARTICULR SENATOR'S NAME wrong, but people tend to notice these things).