Friday, January 27, 2006

Google Supports Gulags

Google is now officially helping a communist regime maintain control and actively persecute its dissidents. The regime is, of course, China's, and apparently Google has no problem in prostituting itself to totalitarianism in order to gain access to billions of Chinese consumers. One facet of Google's complicity is their agreement to censor search results (note the Google hack's characterization of the decision as "excruciating"...right). Compare the fruits of their labor:

Google image search-Tiananmen
Google image search in China-Tiananmen
(From Little Green Footballs)

Let's hope there's a severe backlash against Google for this disgusting behavior, although I doubt it.

--Josh

2 Comments:

Blogger The Wissy said...

Josh,

I've been keeping a close eye on this as well. There's been a lot of backlash in the Internet community about it.

Here's a few links I really liked:

http://www.slate.com/id/2134899/

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=16262

http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2006/01/its_like_watchi.html

http://blog.outer-court.com/censored/

--Ted

1:35 PM  
Blogger The Wissy said...

So clearly I don't know how to make hyperlinks. Please forgive my rookie mistakes, and just paste those in the old-fashioned way.

-Ted

1:36 PM  

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