Why is google supporting Oppression in China by helping the government censor the internet?
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They claim that they are agreeing with govt b/c it will allow the people over there to have access to their system.  But they are making money, so it is hard to believe what they say.
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It is an excellent business idea and must be pursued. It is a win-win situation for all the parties involved.\n\n1. For Chinese government, they get free censorship which is professional and reliable.\n\n2. For Chinese people, the knowledge is coming home to the door step. The information will be censored but they will have access to more organized content.\n\n3. For Google, more customers. There are 111 million people who surf web in China, how would not go out of way to get some more revenue?\n\nI think excellent business idea Google has here !!!
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well they are a communist nation, and censorship is what communists do. impure communism is corrupt and the ruling group still feels it needs to crush dissent. if the chinese government allowed uncesored blogs and search engines, the people would organize and overthrow the communist regime. china is just trying to hold to to what will soon be an extinct form of government.
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You mean internet censorship?\n\nThen go to this site:\nhttp://www.stupidcensorship.com
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I think it's absolutely REPREHENSIBLE, and whomever did this at YAHOO should be taken into a dank basement and left their for up to 10 years, without anything but rice, and a BOWL do ones business in which is emptied maybe once a week, then they'll have the SAME conditions that Chinese intellectual prisoners get,it's so BOGUS It makes the BILE rise in my throat. I can't see yahoo doing this, I mean, what would the possible gain be, unless they're so hard up they want a relationship with perhaps the WORST human rights violators since Hitler on the face of this earth..it's unconscionable...seriously, and it REALLY, REALLY makes me sick. I had a great working relationship and friendship with a young person in China, close to my age in his early 30\ns on EBAY selling soccer items. We would talk, exchange ideas, etc. and I was truly worried about his safety after the HORROR stories I've heard about the disgusting oppressive government just coming in the middle of the day and taking someone away, holding a farce of a trial and then proclaiming that "THE LAW HAS WORKED PERFECTLY AGAIN IN CHINA AS THE ACCUSED HAS ADMITTED HIS WRONG DOING" after tons of torture of course, which is NOT limited to the person, it extends to that persons family, and then the government puts the SHAME MACHINE on them, which alienates these souls from their friends, family, neighbours, its horrid, horrifying and I had a chance to visit china and out of principal would NOT do it, they're is NO WAY id go there, as I know my own political views would probably gotten me removed quickly.. that just sits SO wrong with me, so I feel sick now, but to make a long story longer, my friend just stopped emailing one day, and then, I get an email from an account I'd never seen from this guys wife of ONE year, saying they came and got him and he's now in a Chinese prision for 2 years, she coudlnt' speak english and the translation was poor but I got the gist of it and literally wanted to RAMBO the MOTHERFUCKERS who did it,seriously, it wasn't hard to decipher her utter devistation, and it's sickening..they make me sick and if I ever heard of YAHOO doing that, I would NEVER, EVER use them again, EVER..plus, being a news writer for a large paper here in my area, I would definately let as many people know as possible about who did the turning in, and about the Chinese atrocities for things that we wouldn't think twice about. They are watched constantly they cannot talk openly aboout anything, the guy whom I bought items from I had to send the money a special way or his landlord would literally steal it,as he was a government party member, the shite, no that is just so, so wrong it's not EVEN funny, and I hope it wasn't brought up to be funny, because it's actually SICK. So, whoever came up with the question I truly hope you were serious, because your talking about human beings,with families, and lives, and hopes and dreams that could be SNUFFED OUT in ONE second by a heartless, regime hell bent on keeping it's people DOWN, although their public face is completely different if you visit they're you don't see any of the horror, they have people standing all around to keep you from wandering off, etc. So it's all BS, and HORRIBLE HUMAN TREATMENT, and the thought of YAHOO doing that is absolutely REPREHENSIBLE, Yahoo should be a voice and protector of these people, and let them be heard, and heard loudly while protecting their idenity. That's  the Yahoo I would think or hope exsists, and I'd like to know where the information came from about Yahoo or someone associated turning in a chinese person for something they said? It makes no sense.
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China and Japan do this on a regular basis.  Sadly there isn't any software that I know of that can get around this!  It's blocked at a local level, most often by those in power.
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because the chinese government doesnt care enough about that people that live there to do any thing about it!
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The chinese are filtering content on the Google server, kindoff. \n\nWhat you can try is to BYPASS  them.\n\nIn your address bar type this  (removed)\n\nNow once the page loads, you will see a bar similar to the address bar having htp://lycos.com written. Edit that bar and type www.google.com and press enter. \n\nOr else if you dont want to do so click this link .( IT MAY WORK or else you will have to do the complete procedure given above)\n\n( removed)\n\n\nADDITIONAL DETAILS.\n\nNone of it worked. Thats really surprising. Anyway I have removed the links if you need them do let me know.
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Google's not objecting on the grounds of privacy, but that it would be too labor-intensive. I don't think that the defense they're using is valid, but there are valid reasons to withhold them.
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Everything about the Internet company Yahoo! screams fun – from the name itself to the bright purple colors, to the endless array of online services and distractions. Around the world they are associated with creativity, innovation and the free flow of ideas.\nI think that’s why it is so shocking to learn that Yahoo! has colluded with the repressive Chinese government to help identify Internet dissidents who were subsequently thrown in jail.\nI urge you to join me today by expressing outrage at Yahoo!’s participation in human rights abuses in China.\nThe details are shocking. Investigations by Amnesty International and others show that:\n• At the Chinese government’s request Yahoo! routinely censors search engine results \nin China -- without disclosing that the censorship has happened.\n• Yahoo!-disclosed private user information has allegedly been used to persecute at\nleast three political dissidents in China.\n• In one case, that of journalist Shi Tao, information turned over by Yahoo! was \nsubmitted as evidence in a trial that ended in a 10-year prison sentence. A primary\npiece of evidence was a private email Mr. Shi sent to the United States from\nhis Yahoo! email account.\nWe don’t really know how many voices have been silenced through Yahoo!’s collusion, or how many people have been rounded up. What we do know, and why we need your help, is that Yahoo! cannot hide behind the supposed realpolitik of working in China.\nRecent examinations of four American Internet technology companies operating in China– Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, and Cisco -- suggest that Yahoo! has most actively aided repressive forces in China, by helping to jail political dissidents.\nNew York Times columnist and consistent voice for human rights Nicholas Kristof concludes “Yahoo! sold its soul and is a national disgrace.”\nYahoo! is not immune to public condemnation. Your demands for change will get the Internet giant’s attention.\nAmnesty demands that Yahoo! use its influence to secure prisoner of conscience Shi Tao's release and to stop any actions that could undermine human rights in any country in which it operates.\nEvery voice makes a difference. Please take action today.\nThanks for all you do.\nSincerely,\nBill Schulz\n\nExecutive Director
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This guy's actually got a point. I'm not so sure on the specifics of any yahoo involvement, but I do know for certain that the Chinese government is very oppressive to anyone who questions its motives or policies. Instances may have tailed off over recent years, but beatings and torture are still a regular part of protocol there. America simply chooses to ignore it because we're more concerned with preserving our good economic relations with China, even though a lot of the cheap labor we outsource there is indeed done by slaves. We really should wake up and start seeing the truth.
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In response to a broad government subpoena, Yahoo turned over material about users' searches without protest, and Google is going to court to fight the subpoena.  (The case had nothing to do with terrorism, rather it is an attempt by the Government to demonstrate that lots of porn is missed by porn filters.)  For that reason, I personally am inclined to ues the Google search engine rather than Yahoo's, as an expression of suuport for Google's stance.
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I had heard on NPR a while ago that they actually ARE censoring the internet.  Something about how they have a different version of Google or something and certain sites are not available to users in....I forget which country exactly - but it was in Asia.   Of course, the news report was saying how some hackers were trying to bypass the censorship and how they were putting themselves in danger to access government censored information.
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The Chinese government is one of the most effective governments in today's world, and certainly superior to that farce in America.\nThe Olympic games is an absolutely major event affecting everything, like greater emphasis on teaching English, teaching less-educated Chinese how to be polite, improving buildings and roads in and around Beijing, and generally working hard to provide traditional Chinese hospitality to all visitors.\nThere will be no limitations on photography, and I guess that the web blockage will be cleared. There are ways round it anyway.
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It will take a while, but sooner or later Google will rule the world. Knowledge is power. Right now the Chinese are still in their internet infancy. They'll grow up eventually and realize that the only way to maintain in the global community is to know your friends and your enemies.
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First, if these sites are censored, it might be a bad idea to proxy around those censorships.  Otherwise, you can try a proxy bypass site, in which you enter the web address, and the proxy site goes around the censorship somehow.  Try http://www.unipeak.com/
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Hi i am a Chinese, i know the situation of China.\nChinese Government restrict anything that critisize them and ANYTHING about Fa Lun Gong. THere is a book published by Fa Lun Gong that critisized Communists.\nI hope my information was helpful:)\nGeorge X