[lit-ideas] Re: lit-ideas@freelists.org
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:06:13 -0500
Yahoo and the other big search engines have been doing that for a long time
now in China. It's big business. Google held out, now they caved. The
Chinese use the same technology that MS and others devised for corporate
control of employees (to keep people from reading Sports Illustrated at
their desks). The Chinese Internet actually has little graphic cars going
across people's screens reminding them that Big Brother is watching. There
was more freedom of speech in China five years ago than there is today and
it's getting worse. They're using capitalism to further
communism/totalitarianism and destroy democracy. Not a small irony I
think. France set a precedent for the West when it clamped down on Nazi
searches on their Internet.
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 1/25/2006 2:31:24 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> from mediabistro.com
>
> GOOGLE WILL CENSOR SEARCH RESULTS IN CHINA (AP)
> The online search engine leader has agreed to censor its results in
China, adhering to the country's free-speech restrictions in return for
better access in the Internet's fastest growing market. InformationWeek:
Google has its vulnerabilities--excessive reliance on search advertising,
lawsuits, eroding public trust, lack of focus, and the competitive threat
from Microsoft.
> http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/24/D8FBCF686.html
> http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=177103024
>
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