Google’s Dual View of World
January 29th, 2006 by Dan GillmorFrom Dave Farber’s Interesting People mail list:
Here’s what censorship does.
Compare
Google China:
http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmenGoogle the rest of the world:
http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen
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January 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. [...]
January 29th, 2006 at 7:13 pm
[...] Dan Gillmor, Center for Citizen Media, illustrates Google’s China solution. [...]
January 30th, 2006 at 10:48 am
Can’t see to compare: my google.cn queries are redirected to google.com every time.
January 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. [...]