[cmslabstudent] China Orders Google to Suspend Foreign Site Searches
- From: 韩晓雨 <hanxiaoyu@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cmslabstudent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, 胡方伟 <hufangwei@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:33:44 +0800
China has ordered Google to suspend its foreign Web site search service
after warning that the company's filtering of pornography was too weak,
<http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/156391/chinese_government_campaign_targets_internet_porn.html?tk=rel_news>state
media said Friday.
Google was also ordered to revamp its service immediately and remove all
links to pornographic and "vulgar" material, the official Xinhua news agency
said.
The Google function that suggests search keywords as users type stopped
working on google.cn during the day on Friday, though it still worked in the
country on google.com. Google was also ordered to remove that ability, the
report said.
The function was shown to recommend suggestive terms based on mundane inputs
during a news program broadcast by state-owned CCTV a day earlier. The
station showed Google suggesting "illicit mother-son relations" as a search
phrase in Chinese when a user typed in the word "son."
A government-backed Internet watchdog also condemned Google for
"disseminating pornography and vulgar information" from abroad on Thursday.
Xinhua did not explain the demand to end search services for foreign Web
sites.
A Google spokeswoman confirmed the company had met with Chinese officials
Thursday to discuss problems with its China search
service.<http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/160818/google_share_of_china_search_market_inches_up_in_2008.html?tk=rel_news>
"We are undertaking a thorough review of our service and taking all
necessary steps to fix any problems with our results," the spokeswoman said
in an e-mail. "This has been a substantial engineering effort, and we
believe we have addressed the large majority of the problem results."
Google will continue to meet with Chinese authorities to address their
concerns, the spokeswoman said.
Authorities will take further steps based on how Google revamps its China
site, Xinhua said.
China launched a campaign against online
pornography<http://www.pcworld.com/article/162254/china_closes_more_porn_web_sites_in_crackdown.html?tk=rel_news>this
year that has led to thousands of Web site closures. It has also
ordered
all PC makers to include Internet filtering
software<http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/166280/china_demands_new_pcs_have_web_siteblocking_program.html?tk=rel_news>with
all new computers sold in the country starting next month.
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