Boing Boing quotes a reader who says http://www.google.az shows censored results as well. http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/03/not_just_in_china_go.html
Does anyone know more/ does anyone have examples of censored results? |
not sure what is being filtered .. my Contact in Buku cant make out the difference.. :)- but then he uses Yahoo most of the time.. |
Why is this a surprise?
Saudi Arabia and other countries are copying China's internet censorship, and now that the technology has been developed and is on the market, within just a few years most dictatorships and semi-free countries may have killed the freedom of the internet in their countries.
Your Google at work! (and Microsoft, Cisco, Yahoo, etc.)
The ONLY question is "which country is next?"
Once the other countries have killed the freedom of the internet, the U.S. will follow--if only because nobody will be left to cry out in support of freedom; and we have already proven we won't--at least not loudly enough to stop it now, when we could.
The "blood" will be on our hands if we remain silent while the the freedom of the internet in other countries falls.
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