Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Google and Yahoo are punks!!!
"Yahoo! has been censoring its Chinese-language search-engine for several years and rival firm Google, which recently took a share in Baidu, a Chinese search-engine that filters a userÂ’s findings, seems ready to go the same way. In their efforts to conquer the Chinese market, the two firms are "making compromises that directly threaten freedom of expression," Reporters Without Borders said."
From reading the article "Google-Yahoo market battle threatens freedom of expression", I have come to the conclusion that these two American tycoon companies are not as big and as bad as I thought. At one point in time, everything was done through Google or Yahoo without a care. It was free, unlimited access to any kind of information necessary or desired. However, lately both compaines have been conforming their American ways of keeping an "open door policy" to limiting its contents for certain areas in China. In my own personal opinion, the Chinese have always been undercover masterminds, and it seems that they are getting their way and tearing down the backbone of American structure in the process. This is supposed to be a free country, and an individuals access to information was included.
As said in the article, "Censorship of search engines is a core issue for freedom of expression". Although I do not agree with what the Google and Yahoo companies are doing, I must admit, I should have seen it coming. MONEY IS MONEY, and it runs America, so losing information to gain more $$$income$$$ doesn't surprise me at all. Maybe I was the naive one believing America had a heart full of feelings and compassion, not greed and domination. Chinese can get information about anything connected to America, but Americans will get " NO DATA FOUND".
