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Yeah, I came in here to say just that.]]>Mar 23rd 2010 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/
Ping-pong is a synonym for table tennis.]]>Mar 23rd 2010 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/
Or Wiff Waff if you listen to old Boris O_o]]>Mar 23rd 2010 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/
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Wow, don't be an idiot. Badminton and Ping Pong are different sports both of which China is very good at. ]]>Mar 23rd 2010 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/Mar 23rd 2010 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/
My popcorn's ready for this battle in any case :)]]>Mar 23rd 2010 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/Mar 23rd 2010 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/Mar 23rd 2010 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/Mar 23rd 2010 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/Mar 23rd 2010 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/Mar 23rd 2010 7:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/Mar 24th 2010 4:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/Mar 23rd 2010 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/Mar 23rd 2010 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfwqSBWDW_A]]>Mar 23rd 2010 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/Mar 23rd 2010 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/Mar 23rd 2010 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/
Can't wait for the tanks to roll up to the Google building. Will Sergey Brin stand in front of them?]]>Mar 23rd 2010 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/use https]]>Mar 23rd 2010 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/Mar 23rd 2010 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/
i heart google even more. long live google!]]>Mar 23rd 2010 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/Mar 23rd 2010 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/
Amerikah!]]>Mar 23rd 2010 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/Mar 23rd 2010 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/Mar 23rd 2010 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/Mar 23rd 2010 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/Chinese citizens are not consider human at their government point of view anyway. why would they need freedom?]]>Mar 23rd 2010 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/Mar 23rd 2010 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/
I understand Google is simply trying to please their shareholders but perhaps it's time to make a clean break and part ways. I guess that's why I'm not a businessperson; I understand that one "cannot please all the people all the time," as the old saying goes.]]>Mar 23rd 2010 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/Mar 23rd 2010 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/
Having said that, however, I'm curious about your thoughts on how an Internet search engine is going to change their society for the better? By making them more connected? By informing them about the oppression they already know they're under? Seems a bit redundant.

Google offers a lot of nice services but "magic" is not one of them as yet.]]>Mar 23rd 2010 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/
You mean an "apple vs windows" debate.]]>Mar 23rd 2010 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/Mar 23rd 2010 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/I'm pretty sure the Chinese don't care about this because they've been indoctrinated into believing their government is right about everything.
Why should we care?]]>Mar 23rd 2010 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/Mar 23rd 2010 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/Mar 23rd 2010 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/I don't see how redirecting google.cn to unfiltered results is posturing. That appears to me to be a very concrete move. As of now Google is no long self censoring its search results in China, it is forcing the Chinese government to block all those inconvenient truths they don't want their people to see.]]>Mar 23rd 2010 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/
WOW, MLK Jr and Gandhi would be proud!

I believe the term is civil disobedience?]]>Mar 23rd 2010 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/
To quote Brendan Behan, "There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary."]]>Mar 23rd 2010 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/Mar 23rd 2010 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/So Google is purely using this conflict with China over free speech to get positive PR for itself, because that is going to be more profitable for them than maintaining their search business in China? I doubt it.

I think Google got fed up with the "rules" of doing business in China, and that government's increasingly hostile actions against free speech through attacks against Google user's accounts. So how does Google make a point? Don't just close up shop and leave, instead start disobeying those "rules" that are universally unjust and leave it up to the Chinese government to expose themselves as enemies of freedom by enforcing laws against free speech.

I think its more about getting bad PR for China than good PR for Google. And if Google gets a little bounce in public opinion for their actions here, as well they should. They deserve that much for effectively pulling out the the world's largest growing market.

ps... and I it think this is actually "bad publicity" for China...]]>Mar 23rd 2010 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/They are maintaining their search business in China. That's the whole point. They didn't leave China. They used a move that they knew the Chinese government could easily go around by filtering the Google search results for them. The end result is the same. Chinese users still get censored searches and Google still profits. They have NOT left like they said they would do. I remember everyone praising Google for "leaving" when they didn't even leave yet, and now people are praising them for offering a token of disobedience that has no effect whatsoever.

Bad PR for China? Everybody knew that the government censored results and that they would do whatever to keep it that way. That was no secret. What Google needed was to distinguish themselves from Baidu and the other search engines in China, and to keep their "Do no evil" reputation on our side of the world- a reputation that they've been slowly losing with their views on privacy and the fact they censor results for other countries.]]>Mar 23rd 2010 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/
Being a Chinese person who was born and raised in north America and now living in china for business, you are the only person on this blog that knows what they are talking about. Sure using this dam proxy server to be able to watch you tube and the sorts is annoying. but that's not the point.

I think most people here should not comment about things they are so clueless about. Come live here for a couple years and then form your opinions, clearly most of you know nothing other than what YOUR government has led you to believe.]]>Mar 23rd 2010 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/
Other search provides agree to self censor their results to prevent their sites from being blocked. Google's move to stop this practice has forced the Chinese government to censor or block Google's sites themselves. To me that is more than a token difference.]]>Mar 23rd 2010 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/Mar 23rd 2010 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/china-partially-blocks-google-search-results-from-hong-kong-the/
I don't know that it's Google's place to be "standing up" for the Chinese people in their "fight against oppression".

But then again, it's nice to see a corporation willing to take a financial hit like this for something that it believes in (especially something as altruistic as this appears to be).

But then again, again, what if it wasn't something so altruistic. What if said corporation were fighting for something that didn't ring so much of "freedom of information". Do we want corporations stepping in on social issues and trying to force their will?

I don't know. This is hard.]]>Mar 23rd 2010 9:37AM