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Google's Dual View of World

Jan 29th, 2006
by Dan Gillmor.

From Dave Farber’s Interesting People mail list:

Here’s what censorship does.

Compare

Google China:
http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen

Google the rest of the world:
http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen

Posted in: Ethics, Free Speech, News.

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4 Comments on “Google's Dual View of World”

  1. #1 Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media » Sunday squibs
    on Jan 29th, 2006 at 4:16 pm

    […] Google’s dual view of the world. Dan Gillmor passes along a pair of links from Dave Farber: Google image searches from google.cn (China) and google.com (the rest of the world). It’s a chilling example not just of censorship but the perils of anything that impinges on the free flow of information on the ‘net. […]

  2. #2 Google and China at Madas Fine Grind
    on Jan 29th, 2006 at 7:13 pm

    […] Dan Gillmor, Center for Citizen Media, illustrates Google’s China solution. […]

  3. #3 bumbaugh
    on Jan 30th, 2006 at 10:48 am

    Can’t see to compare: my google.cn queries are redirected to google.com every time.

  4. #4 ckunte.com | One look
    on Jan 31st, 2006 at 6:44 am

    […] One look at this and Google’s all smoothtalk just flies out the window. Pictures of Tiananmen Square massacre are so vivid in my memories. I was a student myself when this happened it was horrible to see those poor kids—students, my age—burning themselves or shot dead in front of a live camera. So many engineering students died. […]