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Google’s face-off with Beijing over censorship may have struck a philosophical blow for free speech and encouraged some Chinese Netizens by its sheer chutzpah, but it doesn’t do a thing for Internet users in China. It merely hands the job of blocking objectionable content back to Beijing.
Its more lasting impact may lie in the [...] Read more »
Google is urging the U.S. government to make net censorship a part of its trade and diplomatic negotiations, even as it holds out hope that China does not start blocking its uncensored Hong Kong servers, where Google.cn users have been diverted since Monday.
Not unexpectedly, Google came in for heavy congressional praise Wednesday at a hearing [...] Read more »
It’s business as usual at Google China’s headquarters in Beijing, the company said Tuesday after the announcement the US Internet giant had stopped censoring its search engine results.
Dozens of journalists crowded outside the company’s offices in the Chinese capital to seek reaction following Google’s announcement, but security staff prevented them from entering the building.
“What I [...] Read more »
A China-based root DNS server associated with networking problems in Chile and the U.S. has been disconnected from the Internet.
The action by the server’s operator, Netnod, appears to have resolved a problem that was causing some Internet sites to be inadvertently censored by a system set up in the People’s Republic of China.
On Wednesday, operators [...] Read more »
Type “Falun Gong” in Chinese into Google’s search engine from Beijing, and the Web browser suddenly becomes unresponsive for about a minute. Make the same search from Hong Kong, and you’ll get plenty of links to the spiritual movement banned by the Chinese government.
Internet users in mainland China and Hong Kong now share the same [...] Read more »
The remarks stopped short of saying whether China might take any punitive action against Google. But the criticism was China’s first official reaction after the U.S. company started redirecting users of Google.cn to the company’s Hong Kong search site, Google.com.hk, where the company said it was offering “uncensored search… specifically designed for users in mainland [...] Read more »
Less than a day after Google said it would no longer censor its search engine in China and began redirecting web surfers to its Hong Kong site, it said some searches were blocked.
“It seems that certain sensitive queries are being blocked, but the full site is currently not being blocked,” Google spokeswoman Christine Chen said [...] Read more »
China’s state media on Wednesday belittled Google’s decision to effectively shut down its Chinese search engine
, saying the Internet firm had made a huge mistake in the world’s largest online market.
The newspapers said the company would earn little sympathy from loyal users in China, as it had turned its dispute with Beijing over government web [...] Read more »
Google has stopped censoring search results in China, the search giant said, finally ending the chess game between Beijing and Google and speculation to whether Google would pull out of China entirely and set up a showdown with the Communist leadership there.
On its official blog, Google said it stopped running the censored Google.cn service on [...] Read more »
China’s state media has attacked Google for having what it said were “intricate ties” with the US government.
Google provides US intelligence agencies with a record of its search engine results, the state-run news agency Xinhua said.
It also accused Google of trying to change Chinese society by imposing American values on it.
Google denied that it was [...] Read more »
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