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Google Stopped Censoring Human Rights Watch in China  (View post)

phatsphere [PersonRank 1]

Friday, September 19, 2008
15 years ago3,712 views

but don't forget, also your german government censores google.de results! My understanding of the freedom of information and speech is that everything has to be allowed and we as the members of the society should be aware of all tendencies and possible outcomes of that. There should be no government blacklist at all, under no circumtances, because nobody knows where they draw the line.
It's up to the responsibility of each individual and not big brother to shape everyones mindset.
http://www.chillingeffects.org/search-comparator/search.php?se=google.de&q1=inurl:stormfront.org
especially with the result above, it would raise awareness inside germany for those activities and tendencies. in reality, i think censoring those websites (see the total number, about 10.000) reduces awareness and just thinking that if you cannot see it, it's not there, is wrong.

Harry [PersonRank 0]

15 years ago #

The whole concept of internet censorship is losing crediblity. With countries passing acts to provide access to all possible information, the censorship comes as a disgrace. Its time ppl started understanding.

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

[put at-character here]Harry: which country has passed an act to provide access to all possible information? Did you perhaps mean "prevent" instead of "provide"?

Isaac [PersonRank 0]

15 years ago #

It's just because GFW in China has released HRW site during Olympics(nobody knows how long will it last). The finding you got just proved Guge(Google China) always guesses and maps the red line from GFW. They did good job on self-censorship.

batch [PersonRank 0]

15 years ago #

In China the Internet has become a new frontier in the fight for human rights.

Internet censorship helps the Chinese authorities to hide the true extent of human rights abuses – like their use of the death penalty, torture and detention without trial and the persecution of human rights defenders.

The Internet should be a medium for the freedom of expression, not repression.

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