Monday, November 05, 2007
Freedom of Expansion Threatened?
The article I read about the Google Revolution has to do with the censorhip of certain things within China and the Chinese internet, using google and yahoo, according to Border's reporters.
In what has been going on for a while now, yahoo, and now google, are both trying to conquer the Chinese market and are compromising what they stand for in compromising the idea of freedom of expression.
It was stated in the article that when you type in certain things into the search engine, such as "Free Tibet", no results are displayed. It also goes on to say that for other things that are searched, only professional and official sites are displayed, not showing civilian created sites which have an opinion that goes against what the official and professional sites state, thus eliminating any possible questioning or doubt of the official web sites.
Originally, google had refused to censor but saw that their website was then struggling in China as the Chinese authorities then censored google in their country so google then obliged and started to embrace the Chinese censorship policies and everything goes from there.
I personally liked the fact that google didn't give in and didn't censor web sites because it's a person's right to have freedom of expression and for a country to take that away from you is wrong but I guess when a country has that much power and to a company, it's all about making money, they're eventually going to oblige.
In what has been going on for a while now, yahoo, and now google, are both trying to conquer the Chinese market and are compromising what they stand for in compromising the idea of freedom of expression.
It was stated in the article that when you type in certain things into the search engine, such as "Free Tibet", no results are displayed. It also goes on to say that for other things that are searched, only professional and official sites are displayed, not showing civilian created sites which have an opinion that goes against what the official and professional sites state, thus eliminating any possible questioning or doubt of the official web sites.
Originally, google had refused to censor but saw that their website was then struggling in China as the Chinese authorities then censored google in their country so google then obliged and started to embrace the Chinese censorship policies and everything goes from there.
I personally liked the fact that google didn't give in and didn't censor web sites because it's a person's right to have freedom of expression and for a country to take that away from you is wrong but I guess when a country has that much power and to a company, it's all about making money, they're eventually going to oblige.
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A good discussion.
There is some talk about how the Chinese government is now redirecting searchs away from Google and other western search engines and towards BAIDU.
What would happen if our internet corporations refused to cooperate? What would the economic and political effects be?
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There is some talk about how the Chinese government is now redirecting searchs away from Google and other western search engines and towards BAIDU.
What would happen if our internet corporations refused to cooperate? What would the economic and political effects be?
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