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I guess you all know this by now: Google agrees to censor a lot of political websites and human rights websites in China, just for the sake of the big money earned from the Chinese Gov. I guess the next step now will be for Google to censor the news about this on Google News!
Nu ar mai fi decat un mic pas pana la cenzurarea propriilor stiri. Oricum, China nu e singurul exemplu, ci doar locul unde se afla o foarte mare piata de desfacere.
Ieri, pe strada, am primit un pliant de la niste tineri din Republica Moldova (dupa vorba,dupa port), pe undeva pe langa Casa Presei mai mult sau mai putin Libere. Se pare ca peste 7 milioane de chinezi au renuntat public la statutul de membru al PCC, numarul lor crescand cu 20.000 in fiecare zi… Cifra cu care a inceput de fapt, sa activeze in Romania, PCR-ul…Sa fie numar cu noroc?!…
draga Bianca, ce ai tu impotriva tinerilor din R. Moldova? ce nu-ti place in vorba lor sau in portul lor? Asa mergem spre unire – cu discriminari si prejudicii? Rusine!
draga Val, nu am zis decat ca i-am recunoscut dupa vorba, dupa port…nu si ca as avea ceva impotriva lor!!!Sunt un Gigi Becali 2(yuck!), reincarnarea lui Mihai Viteazu’ in persoana, cand vine vorba de idealisme din astea de genul Unirii…:)
Most people can’t „read between the lines” with the China censorship issue. Hundreds of U.S. businesses have been conforming to the Chinese government for years. So why all the fuss now about Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo? And why limit ourselves to the narrow confines of the search engine industry?
The answer is simple. Uncle Sam wants control of the internet, and that means getting power over search engines. Google has already snubbed their noses at the Bush administration by deciding not to comply with a search warrant that could have disclosed key information about how search results are displayed.
Imagine for a moment that the CIA learned how to manipulate search engine results by reverse engineering the Google algorithim that ranks pages. If the CIA or White House could push certain keywords and websites to the top of searches through manipulation, they could more effectively conduct psychological operations if they wanted to.
Google for their part is following the lead of many other Fortune 500 companies by complying with Chinese government regulations and censorship laws. The ONLY reason it’s getting so much attention now is that Uncle Sam is trying to get any kind of leverage it can over the internet’s golden boy, Google.
Prediction: Uncle Sam will push it’s anti-google propoganda until Google gives them what they want. Google will probably lose the warrant fight and hand over a few terrabytes of data for the NSA to crunch.
But it wouldn’t be the most corrupt thing they have ever done: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635160132,00.html
p.s. if you don’t believe Uncle Sam wants control of the internet read this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm