Comments on: Google ends censorship in China

By: Steve Ballinger

Steve Ballinger — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:49:15 +0000

Hopefully Google have laid down a gauntlet to their western competitors like Microsoft and Yahoo!, who are still operating in China and still complying with the authorities’ censorship demands.
It’s easy for people to be cynical about Google’s motives but their announcement will surely embarass the Chinese authorities and prompt further discussion of censorship in China, maybe even wider issues of corporate complicity in human rights abuses.

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Google may pull out of China | Purple Rain IT Support & Computer Repair — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:08:04 +0000

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By: Simon Cast

Simon Cast — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:43:00 +0000

What about a motion or royal commission into Chinese industrial espionage and whether Chinese gov’s protectionism of its coys falls afoul of global trade rules?

Perhaps it is time for Chinese coys operating or buying in UK/EU to be subject to more stringent Government control regulations?

By: Vik Olliver

Vik Olliver — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:22:53 +0000

Right, but let’s start a little closer to home by promoting encrypted traffic on our own national networks to prevent snooping by anyone shall we?

I’d like to see a Google without any censorship too. We’ll start with one that’s immune from US laws like the DMCA, and dubious leverage that is used to black out certain parts of Google Earth.

Then we’ll criticize China from some form of moral high ground.

By: Grumpy Old Man

Grumpy Old Man — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:29:01 +0000

Well done Tom, Now, will you enter an early day motion to deplore the actions of the Foreign Secretary in refusing to support the Tibetan People in the right to a free nation and an end to the Chinese policy of genocide of Tibetans?

By: Mo

Mo — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:27:49 +0000

Similarly, we should not permit other governments from using the same technologies in the same ways as those widely recognised as repressive.

Especially our own.

By: Google and China

Google and China — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:27:45 +0000

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