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If your ideal free world is the USA, you best stay the fuck away from me.]]>Jan 12th 2010 7:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/
I hope you are not suggesting that China is somehow more free?]]>Jan 12th 2010 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/
I don't know why you mean by 'join'... China owns a big chunk of the US debt pal. That means, you should thank them for bailing you out.]]>Jan 12th 2010 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/
The Chinese* are getting rich and becoming a superpower. They are too busy to notice they are still a communist dictatorship.


* Those that dont run afoul of the politburo.]]>Jan 12th 2010 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/
search "tiananmen square" on google.com then google.cn, very different results]]>Jan 12th 2010 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/I'm sorry, but being a rabid fan of the PRC, containing a one-party regime (the Communist Party of China) that squashes dissent like one squashes bugs, even amongst their own (see Zhao Ziyang), and is a supporter of similar regimes (see Sudan, Burma), not mention a likely culprit in the disaster that was last month's Copenhagen conference on climate change, is not going to score you points here.]]>Jan 12th 2010 8:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/"china needs to join the "free world" already."

Seriously. Here's the part that really gets me upset. So, Google conforms to China's weird logic of blocking sites or whatever, and then China has the balls to still pull off an ATTACK on people!

People can argue all they want about the ethics of China, but that right there shows some seriously deceitful undertones of what China is doing within their own country.]]>Jan 12th 2010 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/Jan 12th 2010 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/Asking China to join the 'free world' now would be like asking apple to make Iphones with winmo 6.5. ]]>Jan 12th 2010 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/Jan 12th 2010 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/
does your mom and your dad say the same thing about your uncle?]]>Jan 12th 2010 10:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/
Agreed... :/]]>Jan 12th 2010 10:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/
Search for a Calendar. It's 2010 smart guy.]]>Jan 12th 2010 11:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/that they won't be dictated by anyone in the name of freedom of speech

The caveat though is the effects of Google losing its chinese business profits should china won't settle for a yes with Google's
new approach to make their searches 'uncensored' on google china. More details: http://bit.ly/google-china-censorship-details]]>Jan 12th 2010 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/Jan 13th 2010 3:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/
Your right about the US debt issue but that's not Google's problem. With all this hacking going on it's plain to see that the other side has not upheld there end of the deal. Google should ramp up fully uncensored operations in China and take the fight back to the goverment.

It would be a tough long campaign but with their power on the Web it can be done.Giving the Chinese people a special version of the Chrome browser designed to try and deal with the phishing schemes and malware along with other technologies would be a start.]]>Jan 13th 2010 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/
you are right, within their own country, so what power do you have to stop them? and what role does USA play to tell China what is right and wrong? Communism is not good? i don't think so. how much freedom do you really think you have, and do you really think you are happier in this country? visit China for once if you have never been there before, they are enjoying their live as much as people in the USA. ]]>Jan 13th 2010 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/It's even worse if you look it up as 天安门广场 (simplified chinese).]]>Jan 13th 2010 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/They squash people within their own party but it's not necessarily always a squashing of "reformers"-there's internal power struggles within the party and sometimes people resort to the same kind of ugly tactics McCarthy used. Which is why even Deng Xiaoping got thrown in a labor camp. Of course I'm not saying that any of this is right, but it's much more complex than suggesting that everyone in the PRC is an evil overlord who wants to censor freedom of expression-there's certainly a lot of people who want to make things more open, but supporting it would leave you open to pretty vicious attacks by your opponents.

I think it's pretty ballsy for Google to just make this play though, but that said Google hasn't really been as successful in China as they had hoped so the Chinese are pretty likely to just tell em "don't let the door hit you on the way out." since it'll help a domestic company gain more market share (stock shares of Baidu skyrocketed after Google's announcement) and China's going to be the largest internet market in the world.

That said I do hope they win, even though the reality of what happened during 1989 Tiananmen is also more complicated than most people realize, with significant internal battles occurring within the Chinese Communist Party. Also, since it's a place people in Beijing often frequent people in China don't automatically think of 1989 Tiananmen when you say Tiananmen. It'd be like thinking about 9/11 everytime you said downtown manhattan. So I really think a Chinese search engine even uncensored would show a different set of images-but I don't agree with censoring the internet.

I guess we'll see how this plays out, even if it fails it'll be interesting to see. ]]>Jan 13th 2010 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/Went there twice. They killed my family, blew up my car, and tortured me.
Not really though, I just had some flat Pepsi and that was the worst it got.]]>Jan 13th 2010 9:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/Jan 12th 2010 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/Jan 13th 2010 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/Jan 13th 2010 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/Jan 12th 2010 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/
I really hope for a real democratic free clean China. ]]>Jan 12th 2010 9:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/Jan 12th 2010 9:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/
I'm with you. Google should have pulled out a long time ago. A lot of American companies need to review why they are doing business with this oppressive regime. I hope this is actually a genuine effort by Google instead of one based on financial reasons like Baidu mopping the floor with them and preventing them from making a profit in the region. ]]>Jan 12th 2010 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/Jan 12th 2010 11:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/"A lot of American companies need to review why they are doing business with this oppressive regime."
Hey, they are doing business with China purely because of the profits they gain from the orders being produced in sweatshops in China. You really think American companies work with Chinese suppliers to promote freedom?]]>Jan 13th 2010 12:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/
Google just supported this censorship by quitting like a coward... shutting another possible doorway to the free world.

As a Chinese, I feel very sad today that my mother has to Bing! from now on. ]]>Jan 13th 2010 4:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/it's Baidu]]>Jan 13th 2010 5:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/No one should have to Bing! - surely this is a human rights issue?]]>Jan 13th 2010 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/Jan 13th 2010 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/Jan 12th 2010 7:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/Agreed. While Google is so often THE internet entity for the western world, people need to learn that it's not necessarily the case in other countries. Baidu, or even Yahoo! (YaWho? to us, amirite?), are hugely popular in China.]]>Jan 12th 2010 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/what the heck is a yahoo?]]>Jan 12th 2010 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/They're that one company with all of the human rights violations.
]]>Jan 12th 2010 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/Jan 12th 2010 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/Jan 12th 2010 10:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/
Well, you obviously speak english, so why not just proxy tunnel and use google.com?]]>Jan 12th 2010 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/
Which was hacked temporarily in the last 24 hours by the same Iranian group who took Twitter down briefly last month. I wonder if that had anything to do with Google announcing this today...]]>Jan 13th 2010 1:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/Jan 13th 2010 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/Jan 13th 2010 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/Jan 12th 2010 7:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/L-O-L]]>Jan 12th 2010 10:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/I loled as well..]]>Jan 13th 2010 1:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/Most insightful comment here, reminds me of the little joke that says "Don't steal, the government hates competition." ]]>Jan 13th 2010 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/Jan 13th 2010 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-will-review-th/
unlikely, however.]]>Jan 12th 2010 7:23PM