A Picture Says 1000 Words About Google's Censorship In China
Plenty are writing and writing about Google’s agreement to censor results for
China. But pictures perhaps better illustrate the differences that Google now
endorses.
Google
Images Censors Too in China from Google Blogoscoped shows you how a search
for [tiananmen square] on Google Images China provides happy scenes while over
at uncensored Google Images, there are tanks rolling in.
I took a look for just [tiananmen] at
Google Images China versus
Google Images. Here’s a
side-by-side:
No, that little bit of text above the images at Google Images China is not a
disclosure. That does appear but at the bottom of the page.
By the way, spell
tianamen wrong, and you’ll get uncensored results on Google China. Be
forewarned, one of these images will be of a dead person in Tiananmen Square
after the protest there was crushed.
How Google
Censors Itself For China & Paid Exclusion As Being Evil explains more about
how a misspelling might cause a failure in the automatic censorship filters that
Google itself has created to please China.
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