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The Real Cost of Google's Sellout to China
Editor & Publisher ^ | January 26, 2006 | Thomas Lipscomb

Posted on 01/26/2006 11:47:01 AM PST by WaterDragon

ast week Google announced its intention to resist a Department of Justice court action underway. DOJ wanted Google to allow a surveillance test of millions of its users’ search queries as part of its effort to enforce online pornography legislation passed by Congress to protect children. Yahoo, AOL, and MSN had already agreed to cooperate. But now, in an extraordinary development, Google has announced its decision to join the largest internet censorship effort in the world, being run by Communist China.

Google will actively assist the Chinese government in barring access to thousands of web sites and search terms, in fact anything on the world wide web the Chinese feel might destablize its authoritarian government. It will also eliminate the blogging and email services it offers elsewhere in the world. According to the Associated Press: “Google officials characterized the censorship concessions in China as an excruciating decision for a company that adopted ‘don't be evil’ as a motto.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: access; censorship; china; communists; congress; doj; google; internet; pornography; sellout; suppression
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1 posted on 01/26/2006 11:47:02 AM PST by WaterDragon
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2 posted on 01/26/2006 11:48:30 AM PST by Constitution Day (It's only January, but already I vote the phrase 'culture of death' the most overused of 2006.)
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To: Constitution Day; WaterDragon
Here's an L for ya too
3 posted on 01/26/2006 11:51:14 AM PST by thoughtomator
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To: WaterDragon

To be fair, Google also complies with established law in this country (and others). We just happen to like our laws better than Chinese laws.


4 posted on 01/26/2006 11:51:29 AM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: thoughtomator
LOL!
5 posted on 01/26/2006 11:52:04 AM PST by Constitution Day (It's only January, but already I vote the phrase 'culture of death' the most overused of 2006.)
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To: GovernmentShrinker

and to be more fair, if google balks the chinese can always get Yahoo or Microsoft to do the exact same thing. Corporations as a rule are psychopathic in character and this is no exception.


6 posted on 01/26/2006 11:53:08 AM PST by WoofDog123
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To: WaterDragon

Here's more - Google shows its true colors

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B254DB30A%2DB720%2D4B94%2D90C3%2D7DBAF258DE2A%7D&siteid=mktw&dist=


7 posted on 01/26/2006 11:53:43 AM PST by abb (Because News Reporting is too important to be left to the Journalists.)
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To: Constitution Day

I wonder what Google would say if the Bush administration approached them with a plan to censor the internet by leaving out critical web sites?

"Google will actively assist the Bush government in barring access to thousands of web sites and search terms, in fact anything on the world wide web the Bush administration feels might destablize its government. It will also eliminate in the US the blogging and email services it offers elsewhere in the world."

Google spokespersons feel that this is perfectly in line with its motto of "Don't be evil" since it improves the bottom line finacially and that isn't evil.


8 posted on 01/26/2006 11:56:45 AM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: WaterDragon

Imagine if the UN ran the Internet. Such censorship would be global.


9 posted on 01/26/2006 11:57:19 AM PST by The Great RJ ("Mir wölle bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: WaterDragon

Nothing new to see here. Not much different than importing Chinese goods made by slave labor.


10 posted on 01/26/2006 11:57:26 AM PST by Dan Evans
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To: WaterDragon
Saw a piece on the BBC News last night about this.It mentioned Falun Gong,the group that the Chinese government is trying to destroy.When I entered that name,all that came up were articles that criticized it...calling it a cult and things like that.

So I guess google will "assist" the Chinese government in quashing a harmless group like Falun Gong,but won't lift a finger for our government in quashing islamic terrorists or porn merchants.

11 posted on 01/26/2006 11:57:31 AM PST by Gay State Conservative
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To: Constitution Day

he hate me.


12 posted on 01/26/2006 11:58:40 AM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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To: WaterDragon

"First, do no harm..."


13 posted on 01/26/2006 11:59:48 AM PST by Czar (StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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To: WaterDragon
no surprise here...

...the liberals that run google feel that the USA is evil and that the chi-coms are good

14 posted on 01/26/2006 12:00:48 PM PST by NoClones
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To: Gay State Conservative
When I entered that name,all that came up were articles that criticized it...calling it a cult and things like that.

That was not what came up at teoma.com, an excellent search engine I'll be using instead of google.

15 posted on 01/26/2006 12:02:40 PM PST by WaterDragon
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To: WaterDragon

Our "global" corporations sell us out the Chinese each and every day. Child and slave labor making the cheap crap that stocks our shelves is far worse than what Yahoo is doing.


16 posted on 01/26/2006 12:03:15 PM PST by Wolfie
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17 posted on 01/26/2006 12:08:51 PM PST by Constitution Day (It's only January, but already I vote the phrase 'culture of death' the most overused of 2006.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
The "porn merchants" you're ready to quash are responsible for a good bit of the technology that is used on the web today (as I mentioned in a post about a week ago about google). If you really want to show those evil porn merchants your distaste then unplug your network cable or phone line and be done with it. Rather, I suppose you'd like to have your cake and eat it too. Use the technology they created with one mouse click and with the next try to get them kicked of the Internet for being a plague on society.

Google did say that the reason that they decided to release a Chinese version of their page, a year after every other competitor did, was because they ultimately believed that giving the Chinese people a little information was better than none. Also, every time that search results are censored, a message is put at the bottom of the page letting the person know that some results were omitted as a result of regional policies.
18 posted on 01/26/2006 12:17:05 PM PST by fmonkey
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..use the technology they created with one mouse click...

So porn merchants are the ones who gave us the internet? Did they also give us the photograph,the printing press and motion picture projector?

19 posted on 01/26/2006 12:22:14 PM PST by Gay State Conservative
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To: GovernmentShrinker

"We just happen to like our laws better than Chinese laws."

That's your definition of the moral and legal difference between the free people of the United States and the dictatorship in China - we "like our laws better".

Let us pray!!!!


20 posted on 01/26/2006 12:27:46 PM PST by Wuli
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