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...
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.
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...
To add to that, this developing security industry story extends far beyond the tech sphere with its involvement of cyber espionage, intellectual property, diplomacy, human rights, and censorship versus free speech on the Web.
Just because the search engines had to lie down and take the censorship doesn't mean Google's headquarters were the right place to protest. Then again, anonymously threatening me for writing about my opinion in last week's column seems a bit...
Censorship and control worked for the Vulcans, so there's no reason to believe it won't work for humans as well. This means anytime the Chinese government decides that a certain type of content isn't worthy of its people, they can tell search...
Human Rights Group & UK House of Commons Demand Google, Yahoo, & Microsoft To Stop Censorship - Human Rights Watch told Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to be upfront with their users about the censorship and stand up to the political pressure China...
Censured for Censorship in China, Slashdot CIO reports that after three years, the Chinese government has opened up access to Google's Blogger. Chinese Government Opens Up Blogger Again Google Video - What a Difference a Link Makes, Bill Tancer...
The missing part Sergey had said was, he explained, was that Google had decided to go ahead with what it considered the lesser of two evils, serving people even though it had to do censorship. Chinese government approved version going sooner.
SearchCast, June 7, 2006: Google Rethinking Chinese Censorship? Suggests Google Might Reverse Chinese Censorship In The Short Term; Meanwhile, Google might reverse its policy of censoring on behalf of the Chinese government.
Today's search podcast covers Google reconsidering Chinese censorship; who's more powerful, a US senator or a Google Guy? Suggests Google Might Reverse Chinese Censorship In The Short Term; Meanwhile,
It's perfectly reasonable to do something different, to say, 'Look, we're going to stand by the principle against censorship and we won't actually operate there. The "not where we chose to go right now" sort of defused the idea that dropping...
Less than a week after Google said it would fight the US government to defend its users, news came that it would cave into the Chinese government's demands for censorship on its new Google China web site.
Now along with news of Google's new Chinese name, Gosh, Google didn't feel too arrogant about telling the US government where to go when it demanded search log data. It doesn't feel arrogant having a lobbying firm to fight for its interests...
That seems absurd given the worldwide coverage of Google bending to the Chinese government's censorship demands last month. Statements To US Congressional Hearing On Chinese Internet Censorship Yahoo Asks for Help in Chinese Censorship Battle
That seems absurd given the worldwide coverage of Google bending to the Chinese government's censorship demands last month. Statements To US Congressional Hearing On Chinese Internet Censorship Yahoo Asks for Help in Chinese Censorship Battle
That seems absurd given the worldwide coverage of Google bending to the Chinese government's censorship demands last month. Providing disclosure is a key element to it justifying the censorship it does for the Chinese government, as it explained...
According to an Financial Times articleYahoo has asked for "broad co-operation among internet, media and communication companies and the US government" to fight the Chinese Censorship restrictions set on the Web.
They're filtering search results in China and other countries that mandate censorship. helping Chinese authorities in jail a dissident. Closer to home, there was the U.S.government demand the major search engines hand over massive quantities of...
