China renews Google's license to host
By Tim Stevens 
posted July 9th 2010 6:59AM
posted July 9th 2010 6:59AM
posted July 9th 2010 6:59AM
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Are you super cereal? I thought China would be all like "Respect my athoritar!" m'kay!
@gigarath
Money > Respect/Principle
@angelusp That video is a music video by the group Insane Clown Posse, who are also known simply as "ICP." It's a joke.
@gigarath
It's super 'serial'... But still +1.
@angelusp ICP... just look closer (still a fail at humour, not an epic fail, but still).
@DBG
I didn't think it was a fail at all. I don't think
It was meant to be hilarious.
Funny thing is, it still redirects automatically, upon a click, to the HK site.
@dcnoren
They are ending the redirect soon.
They are just going to put a google.hk link on their new land page from now on.
I really wonder what's the point of all this. >.>
Anyone who wants unfiltered results will just use google.hk ...
oh I see.
@PinchofSalt
To my understanding, Google wanted an uncensored search engine after the disagreement but since this would be in violation of the license/law they simply redirect all searches to the HK site but this is still subject to the Great Firewall since effectively it is like going to an external site where the severs are owned and controlled by China.
So this wasn't done to have an uncensored search but so that Google did not have to censor ITSELF although results are filtered upon entry.
@canonsburg
Correction: Servers NOT owned and controlled by China
I guess some freedom to browse is better than none...
@Cu3ed
no freedom should of allowed that song/video!
Wooo
@jeff181995
We can now consider Google a world super-power
@PlatinumSkeet
if google turned the off switch on than the internet would shut down
google analytics going off line is enough to render a site worthless
Google has no spine. They could stand by their previous pose not submiting to censure, but they agreed to limiting some search results.
@mrgmr
Moreover, if you head over to Encyclopedia Dramatica, some of their articles have been censored on Google Search. While I understand why they would do that, it goes against their no-censorship thing.
Hypocrites.
@Apple Legal
I think the bigger picture is a little more scary.
The US has become dependent on China to produce our goods, to produce our services, and back us financially. Google breaking down a little to appease China seems to be what we do in this day and age...
Now, do I agree with any of it? Well, that's another story...
@mrgmr Absolutely agree. I guess 'don't be evil' ends at the shareholders.
@Shalabi - Those shareholders could well be your pension fund managers.
@mrgmr
What you want Google to do?
The Chinese government has absolute power in China.
Google aren't censoring the results any more.
They just redirect all google.cn visits to google.hk which isn't censor at all because of some special law in effect in Hong Kong.
It's a novel way of twisting around the laws of China.
I'm surprised that the Chinese government allowed it, maybe they are softening up - although I'm sure if it starts causing problems they will disable it.
@PinchofSalt
Oh nvm, they killed the redirect and put a link on the page instead.
That's that I suppose.
If the people of China want unfiltered result, they will just have to use google.hk.
PS: Sometimes I wonder what's the point of all this. Since there is nothing stopping someone from using other versions of Google.
@PinchofSalt
>>PS: Sometimes I wonder what's the point of all this. Since there is nothing stopping someone from using other versions of Google.
Nvm, I figured it out.
China sucks. We need to stop being evil around Google, not the other way around, if you catch my drift. winks-
@wsansewjs If more companies took this 'drag your feet' approach then we might be able to make a difference over there. Google will always have to cave in eventually - they've got shareholders and other interests, but I think they did a good job here of highlighting the issue.
I say big them up.
@wsansewjs
money money money makes the world go round... Errr makes google go round.
how does google work?
F***king miracle man!
So they're going back to censoring, great....
We're EVIL!
This isn't that hard to believe considering they aren't hosting search in china anymore.
Fucking magnets; how do they work?
@cloud858rk no clue
but what I do know is that with that video, the amount of hardcore in this post is reaching CRITICAL FUCKING MASS
I wonder if they're serving Faygo at the Googleplex in honor of this momentous occasion.
The name's Brin, Sergey Brin. G double-O G, , licensed to host.
the video is the highlight of this post~~~
i love this song
Lost in all of this is that Australia is getting worse than china with internet censorship. But since Australia is a "democracy" it is okay.
Google being the “good” company…until it gets shitloads of money from government.
China: We forgive Google. In exchange Google must never leave.
Google: Okay.
China says "Google...neeehaw".
Fucking search engines. How do they work?
In regards to the comments saying "China sucks" and the ilk of how they should allow google to render completely uncensored results, or disagreeing with China's habit of censorship to begin with. I say to you, only this. China is not America. The same methods used to govern a few hundred million people with a well developed infrastructure would probably fail pretty hard on a country that's still developing it's own infrastructure and has 5 times as many people.
You can down on censorship all you want, but someone's gotta keep a lid on things in China, and something tells me, your armchair governing isn't going to cut it. In the end it comes down to this, who are we, as north americans, to tell other countries that they're doing something wrong? Perhaps you fail to notice our own governmental problems, uh?
I live in China, and while "the whole truth" isn't blaring out of every news outlet, and search engine, the overall mental wellbeing seems to be in tact here. Sometimes, just having to stare at the big picture EVERY DAY doesn't do justice to anyone's happiness.
-Caid.
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