China threatens Google for allowing porn searches (1 Viewer)

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BEIJING, Jan 5 (Reuters) - China has launched a crackdown on websites as the country enters a politically sensitive year, with officials accusing search engines including Baidu (BIDU.O) and Google (GOOG.O) of spreading pornography and vulgarity.

China targets big websites in Internet crackdown | Reuters

What's more of a laugh is the type of title this gets in the Communist-controlled Chinese newspapers (so basically all of them): "Major websites found spreading porn, immoral materials" - China Daily

As the article explains, you can tell it's a veiled attempt to crack down further on political dissent.

Man, what a backwards country.

 

[bigb0yjames]

how the fuck is 09 a politically sensitive year? they dont fucking have election.

 

[annabackwards]

*sighs

 

[Rainie]

Censorship much? Lol. Australia's going to probably end up like that if that so called 'Great Australian Firewall' passes through then we get more groups protesting etc etc.

 

[Trefoil]

how the fuck is 09 a politically sensitive year? they dont fucking have election.

20th anniversary of their Tiananman Square Massacre when they ordered the military to execute a few thousand students peacefully protesting for democracy, for one.

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

Google China used to have images of the Tiananmen Square massacre completely blocked a few years back.

I just searched again now, and it's a lot more truthful.

tiananmen square - Google ͼƬ

Kinda interesting.

 

[Trefoil]

Google China used to have images of the Tiananmen Square massacre completely blocked a few years back.

I just searched again now, and it's a lot more truthful.

tiananmen square - Google ͼƬ����

Kinda interesting.

Nothing's changed. It's just that Google only censors it now if you live in China (i.e. your IP comes from China).

 

[Spazo]

strangely enough when i was in china i had access to any information i wanted on the australian wikipedia and google. I didn't try the chinese one because i can't read chinese but i was able to gain the same information as i would here about Tibet and Tiananmen square. So theoretically some english reading and speaking chinese person can't be censored on the net. but then again the chinese government could still be watching.

a scary thought; most chinese people don't know the information they recieve and are being taught in schools is censored.
how would we know if our web was being censored?

then again where's the line between national/cultural bias and censorship? i mean most of the information we access is bias as it is mostly written by people living in australia, america and britain (and other english speaking countries) so a lot of the time we wouldn't see both sides of the story, or ignore the other side because we don't understand it.

ahh there is no objectivity, we've blinded ourselves to endless possibility simply by opening our eyes.

 

[Hagaren]

Oh yeah...

 

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回复: Re: China threatens Google for allowing porn searches

Google China used to have images of the Tiananmen Square massacre completely blocked a few years back.

I just searched again now, and it's a lot more truthful.

tiananmen square - Google ͼƬ����

Kinda interesting.

Tiananhymen Square.

 

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Re: 回复: Re: China threatens Google for allowing porn searches

China VS Google
Where I get tickets?

 

[Trefoil]

Re: 回复: Re: China threatens Google for allowing porn searches

China VS Google
Where I get tickets?

Indeed.

We're going to hit a point in technology where Communist China either a) can no longer control the lives of its citizens sufficiently to maintain its rule (e.g. Soviet Russia), or b) goes from being a near economic super-power to falling behind the rest of the world because it won't adopt said revolutionary technology (e.g. North Korea).

I'm not talking about the technological singularity specifically. I think the above will happen before the singularity (whether it occurs or not). Give it 10 to 20 years (just look at how much things have changed in the past 10 and 20). I mean heck, it's already sort of starting, and Google's a big part of it.

 

[mrcalkin]

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wahts the point blocking porn, while in China porno Dvd's were everywhere even 12~ kids could buy them.

 

[Dongle]

I'm in China right now, and I'm quite surprised, Wikipedia is actually accessible.

Anyways, back at the topic on hand, my cousin just bought a bunch of porn DVDs the other day. Rofl at the people who think you can't find porn here. LIES! Go to any Chinese BT site, and voila! Porn galore!

 

[zstar]

You can find plenty of porn on Chinese websites if you know where to find them and illegal music, movies etc.

This is politically motivated and has to do with the current economic crisis and fears of growing unrest.

 

[Trefoil]

I'm in China right now, and I'm quite surprised, Wikipedia is actually accessible.

Wikipedia (both English and Chinese) is not censored at the moment. They block and unblock it on a whim all the time, especially when they think people might search for things they don't like in large amounts, such as Tiananmen Square, the Dalai Lama, Falun Gong, or democracy.

Interestingly, they've left Wikipedia alone since the end of the Olympics, and have focused on purging bloggers instead.

Anyways, back at the topic on hand, my cousin just bought a bunch of porn DVDs the other day. Rofl at the people who think you can't find porn here. LIES! Go to any Chinese BT site, and voila! Porn galore!

It's the fact that it's deemed illegal 'subversive content' that is the problem, not that you can't get it. It just gives the corrupt Chinese bureaucracy one more way to arrest people they don't like, while making something harmless a social taboo in the process.