Google Announces Censored Chinese SE
By Nathan Weinberg
Expert Author
Article Date: 2006-01-25
Google announced that it was launching Google.cn, a censored version of Google for people living in China.
Needless to say, lots of people are in an uproar, although Google is actually the last major search engine to do so.
"In order to operate from China, we have removed some content from the search results available on Google.cn, in response to local law, regulation or policy," a Google statement said.
"While removing search results is inconsistent with Google's mission, providing no information (or a heavily degraded user experience that amounts to no information) is more inconsistent with our mission."
Google said it intends to report to users when information is removed from search results. The company says it does the same thing in response to local laws in Germany, France and the United States.
The Lone Star Times says:
According to Google, the Chinese don't suffer under "censorship," "repression," or "gross human rights violations," you see. They just have "local conditions."
Google will also be blocking Gmail from China.
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