Google's Censorship
Is Google helping or hurting Chinese citizens by developing a search-engine that automatically censors searches?
Centralized power and the decentralized nature of the Internet do not fit together very well in the Far East. The Chinese Government feels obligated to employ strict control over all the information they can in order to suffocate any kind of potential opposition within Chinese society. China employs approximately 30,000 cyber-police to monitor the content of the Chinese Web.
Recently Google has entered to China under some questionable circumstances and faced some severe criticism for their actions in this country. This company has launched a heavily filtered version of their search engine to satisfy Chinese Government officials. Western companies are selling their souls for a piece of the Chinese market by contributing to human rights violations. Google's position is wrong. The censorship will lead to devastating effects on the Chinese society. Those people want to get out of Mao Tse Tung era; they don’t have in mind to go back. Everyone should be able to express themselves, it is the the liberty of speech and press. It is ineffective to try keeping under secret some kind of information. This reasoning contributes to the illiteracy of a nation pushing to an absence of a critical judgment. The giant search engine should think about his commercial responsibility.
I have a message for Google: Don't be evil.
Centralized power and the decentralized nature of the Internet do not fit together very well in the Far East. The Chinese Government feels obligated to employ strict control over all the information they can in order to suffocate any kind of potential opposition within Chinese society. China employs approximately 30,000 cyber-police to monitor the content of the Chinese Web.
Recently Google has entered to China under some questionable circumstances and faced some severe criticism for their actions in this country. This company has launched a heavily filtered version of their search engine to satisfy Chinese Government officials. Western companies are selling their souls for a piece of the Chinese market by contributing to human rights violations. Google's position is wrong. The censorship will lead to devastating effects on the Chinese society. Those people want to get out of Mao Tse Tung era; they don’t have in mind to go back. Everyone should be able to express themselves, it is the the liberty of speech and press. It is ineffective to try keeping under secret some kind of information. This reasoning contributes to the illiteracy of a nation pushing to an absence of a critical judgment. The giant search engine should think about his commercial responsibility.
I have a message for Google: Don't be evil.
posted by Luis at 11:29 PM
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