Since 2010 the company has been at odds with the country's government over its co-called Great Firewall and censorship policies. The Chinese Ministry of Technology has accused Google of unfairly discriminating against local firms by hindering the...
The firm ceased issuing the warnings in early December, according to a report from Chinese censorship monitoring group Greatfire.org, and has removed supporting information from its about pages. What could be the reason for Google to switch off...
Google recently launched an anti-censorship tool for Chinese search users, announcing the update on their Inside Search blog while carefully dancing around any direct mention of government censorship.
Conflating Internet censorship and Google’s biggest competitors is a bit lazy, and it makes Brin seem wistful and out of touch. Google had launched its search engine in China in 2006 and had censored search results for four years to comply with the...
The dedication to a specific ethical code that refuses the censorship of the Chinese government makes full web searching impossible. It’s unlikely that the Chinese government will pay attention to a deal-finding service, and even if they did, the...
In addition to self-censorship requirements from the Chinese government (which required Google to block gambling sites, pornography, and any content deemed critical of the communist government), China moved to block access to YouTube in 2009.
As most people already know, Google moved its search engine off of the mainland last year, primarily because it couldn’t agree to the Chinese government’s policy of censorship. With an index built around the Chinese language, those English searches...
This continues a long trend of censorship of both Google and social properties. It's possible that Google+ has been banned selectively, that access has been limited by the Chinese government, or that Google simply didn't make the new site available...
While Google doesn't function in China due to censorship concerns and the fear that Google accounts may be abused to compromise the efforts of human rights activists, Chinese users who visit the Google site are still directed to the Hong Kong...
Google actually withdrew after censorship debates in early 2010, and the recent Gmail hacking attempts has prompted more tension between Google and the Chinese government. Web portals remain the overwhelming way that Chinese internet users spend...
Ironically, Google is probably if anything more concerned than the Chinese about losing its own "face" by going back in and accepting Chinese rules on areas such as censorship. Doing something completely different would mean something along the...
Due to the high-profile censorship conflict between Google and the Chinese government early this year, the study recommends marketers to monitor up-and-coming search players such as SOSO and Sogou that are eyeing Google's traffic and diminishing...
During a week when censorship of WikiLeaks' publishing of US government cables is being discussed and people suggest the founder Julian Assange be killed, UNESCO announced the US will host World Press Freedom Day next year.
The "apparent censorship follows the blacking-out of reports on foreign media satellite feeds when Liu was named two months ago. The Chinese government does not want its citizens watching dissident Liu Xiaobo get his Nobel Peace Prize today, so...
More on Wikileaks Censorship Real doubts within the Chinese leadership about the future of North Korea as a separate entity from South Korea. The global impact of the leaking of 250.000 US government cables (communications between US officials) has...
Freedom of speech and press behavior: This may be censorship or it may be a cultural dislike of something. When someone tells you that there are 400 million Chinese online or that more than a billion people live in India, that can be a captivating...
We want as many people in the world as possible to have access to our services, including users in mainland China, yet the Chinese government has been crystal clear throughout our discussions that self-censorship is a non-negotiable legal...
Wall Street also may be skittish on Chinese Internet companies as Google's recent ultimatum has raised serious questions on censorship and Internet security issues as it relates to the Chinese government.
We've put together a handy little guide so that government regulators of all nations, but mostly China, know when they've crossed that dirty little line over to censorship. If you block sites hosted by the Taiwan government or sites related to the...
Earlier this week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke out against Chinese Internet censorship at a speech she gave at The Newseum in Washington, DC. They also said that the accusations of censorship hurt U.S.China ties.
