google stopped censoring

Postby haloguy » Tue Mar 30, 2010 4:19 pm

did anyone hear that google stopped censoring china, does anyone know about this, I want to know details

Re: google stopped censoring

Postby haloguy » Tue Mar 30, 2010 4:30 pm

all i heard is something about routing through hong kong?

Re: google stopped censoring

Postby Fesselfan » Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:37 pm

Basic story...

google wanted a share of the china market. So, they decided to play along with the government and censor the search results.

Now, google decided to no longer censor them. Wether because they are altruistic...or because they haven't managed to set foot on the chinese market...is up to ones personal view :big:
So now they shut down the chinese site (.cn) and instead route it to the hong kong one. As you may know, hong kong has a lot of special regulations, so they don't need to censor there.

Cheers

FF
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Re: google stopped censoring

Postby haloguy » Wed Mar 31, 2010 12:45 pm

thanks FF!