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Google bows to China pressure
Bowing to Chinese laws, Google Inc. has agreed to censor search results about topics forbidden by the government there, eliciting scathing criticism from civil rights advocates.
The popular search engine will block results that include such terms as "free Tibet," "democracy" and "Falun Gong" as part of a Chinese Web site the company is introducing today. The Mountain View company's decision illustrates some of the compromises companies make to do business in the world's most populous nation. China's government puts tight controls on what citizens can read and filters the Web to block access to any material it deems harmful. _________ Read More / Source: SFGate |
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Saw this on the news tonight. And I'm hardly suprised. This is China we're talking about after all.
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Is anything stopping chinese people accessing other google websites? For example, I'm thinking of going to South Africa this year, but instead of searching on google.com or google.co.uk I used google.co.za to search for pages located in south africa.
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