Read yourself:
http://news.com.com/China+We+dont+censor+the+Internet.+Really/2100-1028_3-6130970.html?tag=nefd.top
So now I think Google can comfortably enter the North Korean market. |
When you believe you're on the right side it won't be censoring to you. It will be something different. Google calls it "filtering", for example. In Germany, censorship is also illegal according to our laws, and yet there is censorship – only it is not "defined" as such. I've even heard someone explain this to me in a talk, and he too believed it, and he was German!
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2006-06-27-n46.html |
In the meantime, the search engines defend their censorship, though I hear thoughtful tones from Microsoft:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/15894384.htm
(I won't even get into why the "a little information is better than nothing" excuse cited in the article is a deceiving strawman argument.) |
Of course censorship is bad but filtering very useful! Especially because of child pron when children could view pron on the net... |
That's not what I meant. Google calls their *Chinese self-censorship* "filtering." See:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/google-in-china.html |
