[COLUG] Google Engaged In Censorship in the U.S.

[Andrew J. Barr]

On Friday 13 October 2006 02:51, Josh Glover wrote:
> *** Google will filter searches in compliance with the government
> censors, but they inform the user that "this search result was deemed
> inappropriate by censors, thus we cannot show it to you". So the user
> knows when censorship is occurring, and can access Google.com to see
> the full, uncensored search results. Google has repeatedly refused
> requests from the Chinese government to automatically redirect Chinese
> users to google.cn and lock them there. ***

That's interesting because I've seen screenshots of Google censorship and that 
has not been what I've seen. For example, a Chinese Google Images search 
for "Tienanmen Square" returns starkly different results (e.g. no evidence of 
1989) than the standard Google.com, with no mention of censorship anywhere.

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Andrew Barr

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