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GOOGLE Resists Ending Its Programs Enabling CommieChinks To Sensor & Cut Off Citizens' Internet Access!

It's all about the money ... BIG money ... but Google denies any
"connection."

"What, us?"

Kinda in the spirit of "Google Help."  (No noose is good noose.)

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"China's Information Dam"

"Should Yahoo, Google and Microsoft help the censors?"

Editorial
Monday, June 29, 2009


"IT IS NOT our job to fix the Chinese government," Yahoo CEO Carol
Bartz said last week. Maybe not. But search engines operating in China
face a dilemma come July. Starting Wednesday, China is embarking on a
broad initiative to clamp down on Web content the government views as
obscene, billing these efforts as a fight against pornography. For
Chinese officials, there has always been an overlap between
pornography and references to politically sensitive topics such as the
Falun Gong and Tiananmen Square. June traditionally marks a crackdown
in China's Web censorship as the country brings down sites such as You
Tube (inaccessible since March) and Twitter for the anniversary of the
Tiananmen Square massacre. But more is in the works.

The plan? Fine and shut down all sites offering unapproved information
on sexual health, command Google to close access to foreign Web sites
and push for the pre-installation of censorship software called "Green
Dam" on all computers. As this list reveals, China's Web censorship
efforts go far beyond the stated goal of protecting against
pornography.

Foreign companies are drawn to China's market of more than 200 million
Internet users. But the conditions of doing business in China are
complicated: Content providers must agree to abide by China's
draconian restrictions on the kind of results they can show. Both Bing
and Google's sites acknowledge that results have been removed. Their
justification is simple: If we don't do it, someone else will.

But this is not necessarily true. In 1996, state news agency Xinhua
tried to place restrictions on breaking financial news, moving to
prohibit all stories not vetted by its propaganda machine. A concerted
pushback by the international media and other stockholders prevailed
against the initiative.

This time, the State Department and industry groups are pushing back
against China's Green Dam censorship software. They must stand firm,
and search engines should join them. The industry can offer China
better alternatives to meet its avowed aim of limiting access to
pornography. But closing access to sexual-health Web sites is both
wrong and dangerous. Fining people who fail to meet government
criteria for the information they post could have devastating
repercussions. And enhancing China's ability to persecute those who
seek freedom is not forgivable.

It may not be companies' job to fix the Chinese government. But if
they choose to do business in China, it is their job to serve the
Chinese people.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/28/AR2009062802398.html

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