Technology Discussion Thread: China censorship of google

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Kalius
And they say Japan is guilty of revisionist history

Enlighten me. In what way or form is that historical revisionism?

[Frozzy]

Manchuria, Tibet and Xinjiang as independent nations

showed Taiwan as a part of Japan

"All these severely distort historical facts and violate China's gaming and internet service regulations,"

Consider yeself enlightened.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
I think they should do that, but put in big letters "becuase of Chinese laws/whatever, we're not allowed to show you the full search results" or something like that.

Yea, that's a good way to do it. I'd also like to see google news quit using Xinhua as the top source for a story so often. Perhaps another disclaimer is in order in this case.

[Wernazuma III]

Hm, I've never heard of France and Germany banning Nazi sites - in Austria, for my part, it's not difficult to find Nazi junk via Google - I doubt very much that there have ever been efforts to limit that. What I do think is that France and Germany may have tried to get sites removed (from Yahoo etc.) who promote unconstitutional propaganda of specific banned groups within Germany/France. And I would argue any time for the legitimacy of such a policy - after all, I'd like to know how many terrorist websites get removed and are blocked by Americans...

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Wernazuma III
And I would argue any time for the legitimacy of such a policy - after all, I'd like to know how many terrorist websites get removed and are blocked by Americans...

I've never heard of this happening, though I imagine that it would be illegal here if the site was used to actively conspire to commit illegal acts rather than acting solely as an information / propoganda outlet.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


Enlighten me. In what way or form is that historical revisionism?

Hey UR! It's a bit off topic, but you've said your family is originally from northern China. Just curious about when they, or just you, moved to Hong Kong.