[Gay State Conservative]

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.

[WaterDragon]

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.

[fmonkey]

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.

[redpoll]

I just entered "falun gong" into Google and the first page of articles were all positive or positive. Not to defend Google's gutlessness... but I didn't see any pro-Chinese slant in my search.

[spunkets]

"When I entered that name,all that came up were articles that criticized it...calling it a cult and things like that."

The first 3 articles on a Google are pro Falun Gong. The first item is Falun Gong's own site.