http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/ Engadget Comments for Google to stop censoring Chinese search results 'soon,' China warns of consequences http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/Mar 12th 2010 6:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/Mar 12th 2010 6:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/China is going to cut them off from all that cool lead laden swag they were giving Google for years.]]>Mar 12th 2010 7:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/god forbid someone finds out that their ancestors WERE ran over by tanks. ]]>Mar 12th 2010 8:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/I must have missed the memo about their education system. When did they start teaching free market capitalism and the benefits of liberty and democracy? Huh, weird.]]>Mar 12th 2010 8:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/
Speaking of propaganda...]]>Mar 12th 2010 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/
Also, the students have a lot of general knowledge, but any sort of creativity is leeched from their system. They also lack fundamental 'common sense' and problem solving skills. In other words, they don't have any life skills. It doesn't help that due to the one child policy the kids are spoiled beyond belief. ]]>Mar 12th 2010 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/I would NOT want my 4th grader to solder anything. I will, however, teach him how to utilize a reflow oven.]]>Mar 12th 2010 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/
Google should just come out with something like FreeNet (peer 2 peer internet) then NO ONE can censor shit!

DO IT!]]>Mar 12th 2010 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/Mar 12th 2010 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/Mar 12th 2010 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/
While you may be praising China's public school system for a regiment life in a factory, the West has for a long time evolved past the industrial age over one hundred years ago.

I'd trade discipline for innovation over any day of the week. Remembering a bunch of facts like a Rolodex isn't what propels society forward.

And yes, the unions and government are screwing up the education system.]]>Mar 12th 2010 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/
Go Google! ]]>Mar 12th 2010 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/
Hey guess what, we're probably all transmitting data in one form or another using Optical Fiber. Guess who was awarded a Nobel Prize for it?]]>Mar 12th 2010 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/]]>Mar 12th 2010 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/
There are few forces on Earth that can destroy Google.
China is one of them.]]>Mar 13th 2010 2:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/Yeah and he studied in international schools...]]>Mar 14th 2010 12:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/Mar 15th 2010 5:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/
$$$>principles?]]>Mar 12th 2010 6:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/Mar 12th 2010 6:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/
oh emopoops, u so troll]]>Mar 12th 2010 7:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/Mar 12th 2010 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/
Good for Google, but the Chinese government is tough to go against. ]]>Mar 12th 2010 6:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/How is what Google is doing good?
They wanted to do business in China, they want to stay in China, they have to play by the Chinese rules.
Do they think they're better than the government that lets them do business? I think not.
Flip the script for a second.

Imagine it was a Chinese company doing the same thing in the US. There'd be hell to pay and they'd have so many fines they'd go bankrupt and have to pull out.

So you all can keep spouting all this nonsense or realize the truth of the matter. Google are about to screw up big time. They already did a survey over there and Baidu is the #1 search engine as it is. Hardly anyone is going to give a shit when Google has to leave.

It just is what it is.]]>Mar 12th 2010 8:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/ Do they think they're better than the government that lets them do business? I think not.

You don't think so good. Google does think they're better than the government that shoots its political dissidents and charges their families for the bullets.

As for Chinese companies doing "the same thing" in the U.S., they are all free to allow Americans to search for news and opinion of tiananmen square, tibet, government corruption, democracy, et al. How would I feel about a Chinese company providing information to Americans? Not that bad, actually.]]>Mar 12th 2010 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/
That's the difference. Now, do you mean, break our laws? Um, American companies do that everyday, and we like to cap our fines against companies and we don't disproportionately fine foreign companies.

Greatest possibility would be more litigation against anyone living on our soil having the book thrown at them in a court of law, but that would be about doing time not corporate fines and the Chinese government might want to do something if it were a high ranking official from a company such as China Construction Bank. I could go into other areas, but ultimately your argument is very flawed.

How is what Google is doing good? Just let people know there is an alternative, they might be content like most people in the US healthcare system...until something goes wrong. ]]>Mar 12th 2010 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/
Are you serious? "Imagine it was a Chinese company doing the same thing in the US."

They do and they get away with it due to that whole freedom thing. Can you give me an example of a Chinese company coming in the US and being told to shut up and do as the government orders as far as speech and free information goes? Also, they pump money into our politicians to keep the US giving them what they want. Don't be so damn naive. It's pathetic. ]]>Mar 12th 2010 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/You guys really are bandwagon idiots who really need to learn the English language.
'Doing the same thing' doesn't refer to the exact same crime but rather flaunting arbitrary laws put in place by the government in the pursuit of 'fairness' in the marketplace. It's why MS isn't doing so well in the EU courts at the moment. Laws are different in different parts of the world. Over in China, censorship on a massive scale is legal and Google saying they're not going to do it, yet wanting to do business there is foolhardy.

Your sentiments are all well and good but the reality of the situation is Google isn't going to be the one to change China.
To hell with you Americans and your fake 'sticking it to the man' but only when it's convenient for us to look better than the locals or when it's for our own material gain. Otherwise, the status quo is just fine.]]>Mar 12th 2010 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/
The problem with the above comment wasn't a language problem, but a conceptual problem. There is no legitimately equivalent crime in free societies. The word game played above was meant to illustrate that, you just didn't understand it.]]>Mar 13th 2010 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/Mar 12th 2010 6:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/Mar 12th 2010 6:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/Google is censoring their searches elsewhere too. It's just a matter of how far you should go. ]]>Mar 12th 2010 7:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/
apparently only if its not done by US.]]>Mar 12th 2010 7:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/
I'm going to have to disagree. Sure, I'm in favor of free speech and all that, but to make a blanket statement that censoring is wrong...

What would happen if you didn't censor some of the things you think about your boss? Or your family or friends? We have a frontal lobe for a reason. Not all information should be given to all people at all times. If you want to say that for China to censor their internet is wrong, then you have a case. ]]>Mar 12th 2010 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/Mar 12th 2010 6:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/
The CIA needs to fund and support pro-freedom activists in China. That's the only way to fix this.
]]>Mar 12th 2010 6:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/Mar 12th 2010 7:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/Mar 12th 2010 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/
Unfortunately, a lot of the Chinese people, as well as the Chinese government, think that Google is taking orders from the US government. They seriously can't imagine a company making politically influential decisions without being controlled by the government. You can't blame them, really, since that is largely out of their realm of experience. ]]>Mar 12th 2010 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/Are you daft? That is the most stupid idea I have ever heard. You just suggested that the CIA should go into a foreign country and support its overthrow. There so much wrong with that I don't even know where the hell to begin. I can only hope you never reach a governmental position.

Typical shortsighted American and his moral high ground. If you'd thought your plan through maybe you'd realize a government with flaws is better than no government at all.]]>Mar 14th 2010 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/
"Typical shortsighted non-American and his moral high ground."

Fixed for ya. Unfair generalizations are fun, aren't they. ]]>Mar 17th 2010 2:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/
Quick youtube searches shows how they censor youtube vid's as well, ive seen it done over and over. I think its just google diverting your attention from the censoring going on in the U.S.

This guys has a good rant lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxY8m-TX7lE&feature=related]]>Mar 12th 2010 6:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/Mar 12th 2010 6:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/Mar 12th 2010 6:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/Mar 12th 2010 6:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/If China wants to have their citizens living in an isolated world, then it is their fault for letting this happen. I believe that sooner or later will be a revolution (a word that has been reported as forbidden in chinese google search) by chinese people. ]]>Mar 12th 2010 7:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/Mar 12th 2010 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/I lol'ed.. +1.]]>Mar 12th 2010 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/Mar 12th 2010 7:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/google-to-stop-censoring-chinese-search-results-soon-china-wa/Mar 12th 2010 7:10AM